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>most of the DE integration and Wayland/x11-specific features are handled for you automatically... Just no ability to launch windows at absolute positions or d

>most of the DE integration and Wayland/x11-specific features are handled for you automatically... Just no ability to launch windows at absolute positions or do non-standard input stuff (like special mice, keyboards, or keyboard/mouse sharing) unless your particular wayland flavor has libei. And some waylands like sway are actively hostile to libei. Which is kind of microcosm of the waylands as whole.

smoldesu 3y ago
It's a microcosm of Linux. x11 had wildly non-conformant desktops since forever, having a larger spec doesn't inherently fix things or force desktops to abide by the rules. Projects like GNOME would have dropped AppIndicator and server-side decorations whether it was included in Wayland or not. Drilling-down on a minimal set of secure features was the only path forward if Wayland wanted developers to take the protocol seriously.