Wayland never was intended to be drop-in replacement for X11, so it's not surprising that it isn't. It's a much smaller scoped, lower level building block, whic

Wayland never was intended to be drop-in replacement for X11, so it's not surprising that it isn't. It's a much smaller scoped, lower level building block, which pushes more responsibility to DEs. It's not just different implementation, it's new model where the hows, whats, and wheres of desktop are getting re-evaluated.