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Interesting that they decided to "reimplement" stuff again. Nice to see them going with Qt though.

• dman 14y ago
  In six months they will be reimplementing parts of Qt that dont fit what they are trying to do effectively driving a wedge between that community.
• eloisant 14y ago
  People on the Linux Desktop have been talking about getting rid of X for years, literally. Everyone agrees that X was designed in a very different world from today, and with its client/server architecture it's pulling back the Linux Desktop more that anything else. But nothing ever comes out of it. In the mean time: * MacOSX used a Unix kernel but they didn't use a line of X11 * Android is based on Linux but again, no X. Ubuntu is the first distro with a clear plan to actually get rid of that crap. And now people are bashing them? What do you think they should do, start discussing with Debian, Fedora and the others about the best think to do? But people have been talking about getting rid of X for years already! Here is how it works: 1. Get shit done 2. If other people find it useful/interesting, they'll use it and maybe work with you to improve it. Never try to do 2. before 1. in Open Source, it doesn't work.
  • shmerl 14y ago
    People get things done - Wayland. Comes along Canonical and creates their own stuff just because Wayland is not controlled by them. Must be so fun to fragment Linux even more.
    • icarus_drowning 14y ago
      To be fair, they give other reasons for dropping Wayland. You might not believe them, but you're hardly giving them much of an argument.
      • shmerl 14y ago
        Their reasons don't sound convincing, and Wayland developers refuted them also pointing out that Canonical didn't even engage in any dialog with them whatsoever. They just created their own thing silently in secret. Such kind of approach doesn't add to credibility of their reasoning.