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There is nothing Wayland "designed out" of their system. It's a fully extendible design which has a very minimal core, instead of bundling a printer and whatnot
by gf000 1y ago
There is nothing Wayland "designed out" of their system. It's a fully extendible design which has a very minimal core, instead of bundling a printer and whatnot into the display server.
This makes it feasible for car entertainment systems that only want to display bitmaps, but is easily extended to any future use case. There are a bunch of actually standard extensions now, implemented across all desktop Wayland servers, so many of these criticisms are moot.
- jenadine 1y agoMaybe Wayland is extensible, but if the main desktop compositor (i.e. Gnome) don't implement these, it is as much as useless. And it seems that Gnome very much "designed out" some features such as window positioning, window icon, and so on. (We're talking about user's desktop, not custom car entertainment compositor)
- rcxdude 1y agoThe main issue is GNOME, really. They are keen to pare down the functionality offered to users and app developers, and so will block standardization of extensions that try to bring wayland up to feature parity, and even if they do get standardised, they will refuse to implement it. Which basically means many developers and users don't want to play ball with wayland at all, and the network effects are fairly strong (devs will not bother with the effort of making something work as best it can on wayland if users still happy to use X11, and users won't switch to wayland if their apps don't work or work less well). (Why does GNOME still matter? They've got the most developer resources of basically any group in the linux desktop space, and a large part of the market share because they're the default on a few of the larger distros)