That's the point. The Wayland design philosophy is to give you a buffer and let you draw into it however you want. That's in marked contrast to X, which defines

That's the point. The Wayland design philosophy is to give you a buffer and let you draw into it however you want. That's in marked contrast to X, which defines its own drawing API. Wayland is not meant to be doing very much. Its main job is to give programs the buffers they need.