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I don't really see the problem you are seeing. > all of the above tools need to be re-written and adapted to each possible compositor These sorts of tools hav

by qwery 4y ago

I don't really see the problem you are seeing. > all of the above tools need to be re-written and adapted to each possible compositor These sorts of tools have always been (re)implemented by each (moderately large) desktop environment anyway. This doesn't seem like something stemming from Wayland or much of a change in general? Any one of these tools needs to be designed, tested, integrated with the rest of the desktop environment, etc. -- this is where the majority of the development effort would(should?) be going. I don't think the effort required to interface with the window manager / compositor is actually that significant, or significantly higher under Wayland.

joebiden2 4y ago
Let's assume you are blind and you rely on a certain set of tools. These tools aren't available after you upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04. Wouldn't you think this is a regression? Any why do you think those tools need to be rewritten anyway? It's fine to write a set of tools for X11 and for wayland, it's not fine to write a set of tools for X11 and for any desktop environment on Linux. This should be obvious, so I assume I am misunderstanding you? Also, do you really think TeamViewer, AnyDesk, VNC etc. will all be rewritten for each existing desktop environment? This will lead to less linux users. Why can't I understand your point of view?