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FTFY: s/extras/essential features/ the decision to roll window management and keyboard management and screen management into one thing called "compositor" look
by nine_k 2y ago
FTFY: s/extras/essential features/
the decision to roll window management and keyboard management and screen management into one thing called "compositor" looks very cavalier to me. It resulted in a need to duplicate so many things that are modular and pluggable under X.
(Repeating myself, I wish somebody created a Wayland compositor that explicitly delegates most tasks to plugins, providing a stable interface, so that you could use your own WM, your own keyboard switcher, etc. Thankfully, screenshooting is using a similar approach already, but in a limited way. The idea is so obvious that somebody must have attempted this already.)
- lproven 2y ago> The idea is so obvious that somebody must have attempted this already You'd think that, wouldn't you? The closest thing I know to a universal Wayland server that's WM and desktop independent is Mir. I blame the disappearance of the one concerted competitive rival effort to the primarily Red Hat-backed complex of Wayland+GNOME+Flatpak to a single HN thread. In my experience, HN commenters are often surprised when I say that I find this place to frequently be toxic, negative, with a strong element of groupthink. It's all on display in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821 It is also why Jamie Zawinski blocks incoming URL requests from here, and redirects to a famous image. https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png