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> It does astonish me how Wayland missed obvious killer angles when they decided to reinvent X11. [..] rich native toolkit What does a toolkit have to do with
by gf000 1y ago
> It does astonish me how Wayland missed obvious killer angles when they decided to reinvent X11. [..] rich native toolkit
What does a toolkit have to do with a display server?! Especially in this age and year when pretty much no one writes native UIs anymore? Like, android, which is by far the most popular OS by user count has a huge proportion of web apps - apps are fundamentally driven by network effects, so the tiny user count a new Linux contender could muster up would be a rounding error.
- hakfoo 1y agoIf you asked people "what are your pain points with the current Unix GUI ecosystem?", in the early 2000s when this was being first discussed, this would have been a popular answer. This was decades before the "let's make everything a stupid webpage in an Electron box" movement, but you were likely running some GTK and Qt apps and probably even some Motif or Xaw stragglers, on a single desktop most days. Yes, they could have said "out of scope" and moved on. TBH, I wonder if that's part of how we ended up where we are. There probably needed to be clear documentation at the right moments of "this is what we don't include, this is why, and this is how we recommend you do it outside the system."