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This just false. There are libraries you can use to get most what you need and you can only change the things you care about related to window manager. And many
by panick21_ 1y ago
This just false. There are libraries you can use to get most what you need and you can only change the things you care about related to window manager. And many systems have done that. Libraries are somehow a good way to share software, but not when it comes to display managers?
The claim about OpenSource manpower is also false. We have multiple high quality compositors and despite any issues, there is quite a large amount of homebrew and other compositors.
If you want something like X11, you can built on something like Mir.
- mqus 1y agoThe point is: The libraries are not from the same people that build the standards, meaning: there is no "primary implementation" that everyone agreed on. ("agreed on" already is one of the problems, X11 was mostly just developed and everyone got "the thing" and had to use it, for better or worse. In Wayland, KDE, Gnome, wlroots, etcpp first have to agree on a common protocol to implement... and we see how that is going)
- gf000 1y agoBesides there being a large overlap between the "people that write the standards" and library authors, how is there no primary implementation and why does it matter? It's literally an XML document that can be used to generate C code for the server/client, that can communicate via a binary protocol. This is just a faulty sentence. If you meant that there is no general consensus on which extensions are "core core" and which are completely optional, that might be a more reasonable criticism.