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>Nobody wanted to work on the X codebase anymore. That, i think, is the main issue. Nobody wants to work with GTK1, or GTK2, or GTK3 anymore. Nobody wants to w
by hulitu 2y ago
>Nobody wanted to work on the X codebase anymore.
That, i think, is the main issue. Nobody wants to work with GTK1, or GTK2, or GTK3 anymore. Nobody wants to work with QT1, or QT2, or QT3 or QT4 anymore. Everybody wants the new shiny toy. Over and over again.
It is CADT all over.
Earlier X was developed by an industry consortium. Now Wayland is a monopoly pushed by RedHat.
- raverbashing 2y ago> Now Wayland is a monopoly pushed by RedHat. Pushed but still it seems it flails and takes too long to do the basic stuff
- nottorp 2y agoRedHat is still mostly a server side company isn't it? Can we trust them to "care" about desktops? Oh wait. There is no more RedHat. There is IBM.
- account42 2y agoThey care about applicances and phone-likes. Which is what Wayland is geared towards. Desktop is just there to do the free testing for them.
- account42 2y agoExactly, same situation as with audio. Instead of improving the OSS API we got ALSA, PulseAudio, and now PipeWire (and a bunch of less mainstream alternatives) -- all with their own weird issues. And of course it's application (or at least toolkit) developers that bear the cost of this churn, not the developers that get to work on their fancy new NIH tech that they'll then abandon before being 100% stable for yet another reimplementation.