Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

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On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 09:03 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 2 April 2014 05:49, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:52 PM, lee  wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hm, not really useful when it doesn`t work with existing WMs ...
> >
> >
> > That would be the responsibility of the WM's themselves.  WM's have to add
> > support.  Not the other way around as you seem to think.
> >
> 
> This is a project that aims to replace one of the most longstanding
> Unix/Linux components (X is older than Linux), but it's everyone
> else's responsibility to make sure it works?

AFAIK Wayland is not just a rewrite of the X server and libraries but a
redesign of the X protocol, i.e. it's not ABI compatible. So yes, it is
up to apps that do low-level X stuff (such as window managers) to change
or where possible use a compatibility layer.

poc

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