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Exactly and the assertion that it's 'very well designed' needs examining - maybe there's a reason there's been such slow adoption.
by jacknews 3y ago
Exactly and the assertion that it's 'very well designed' needs examining - maybe there's a reason there's been such slow adoption.
- formerly_proven 3y agoWayland was created in 2008 and has afaik never supported and still doesn't support anything other than 3x8 bit implicit sRGB graphics.
- WhyNotHugo 3y agoIt does support a lot of other formats. Here's a brief list: https://wayland.app/protocols/wayland#wl_shm:enum:format https://wayland.app/protocols/wayland#wl_shm:enum:format There's plenty of formats that are more than 3x8 bit. There's also been a lot of work recently in getting HDR through (also this requires work in other parts of the Linux graphics stack too).
- medstrom 3y agoThe reasons are no mystery. As a sibling to your comment said, many programs have been written as if X was going to exist forever, with direct calls to X all over the place. Plus X is mature with a million accumulated bug-fixes, so naturally it takes time to produce a reasonable contender.
- School-Cotton 3y agoAlso X works with the leading GPU manufacturer. Wayland does not.
- WhyNotHugo 3y agoAdoption and "well designed" have never had any correlation, historically speaking. Inertia to change, marketing, and making good business deals and have almost always been the more important factors for adoption of any technology in the past decades.