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It's a poor decision. Unless you're IBM/Red Hat/GNOME. Then it's clearly the correct decision for increasing profit. Since GNOME desktop (and mutter) is the onl
by superkuh 1y ago
It's a poor decision. Unless you're IBM/Red Hat/GNOME. Then it's clearly the correct decision for increasing profit. Since GNOME desktop (and mutter) is the only wayland desktop of the dozen incompatible implementations that supports accessibility (they invented two new protocols for it; disregarding existing solutions) it's basically a take-over of the entire linux desktop business space. No other wayland DE is ADA compliant and the Gtk treadmill will make X11 and it's very solid accesibility less likely to work with any application. Sort of a combination gish gallop and CADT so that they're the only linux desktop left that fits business use cases.
- senkora 1y agoI had to look up some terms, so for anyone else: Gish gallop = “a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, without regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available.”, coined about a particular creationist’s debate strategy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop CADT = “Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers”, describing a situation where software is re-written so often that filing bugs against it is useless, coined by jwz here about GNOME’s development approach: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html