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I'm still baffled that on a platform where fragmentation is a serious issue it was decided the best course of action is to have every DE implement it independen

I'm still baffled that on a platform where fragmentation is a serious issue it was decided the best course of action is to have every DE implement it independently. We are going from every DE sharing certain settings and configs to them all doing it differently, maybe not even implenting certain aspects even on the same OS. I just don't get it.

rcxdude 1y ago
Yeah, this is the biggest headache: so many things have gone from "you can do this with basically any WM and DE" to "only works on GNOME, or KDE, or this obscure compositor, hope you don't want some combination where the intersection is zero!"
Expurple 1y ago
It's explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44 The presenter (an X11 dev) argues that it was sorta already the case. That, nowadays, X11 WMs are thick, do much of the work themselves, don't use most of the X server's capabilities, and it's just a weird man in the middle between applications and the WM. I don't have the experience to confirm or deny this, though