George N. White III writes:
On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 18:48, Sam Varshavchik <<URL:mailto:mrsam@courier- mta.com>mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Tim via users writes: > Sam Varshavchik: > > Sadly, I expect that Fedora at some point will become exclusively > > Gnome and KDE, because only these stacks will support Wayland, in > > order to ditch X, and also target the same userbase. This won't > > happen anytime soon, but it will happen. > > I'm still not convinced Wayland's a great idea. The old X had a ton of > features that people wanted, but Wayland doesn't. *If* they > reimplement them, how's Wayland going to be different from X? If they > don't reimplement them, why would those people want to use it? I couldn't agree more. Wayland is a solution in search of problems. Read<URL:https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2004/ols2004v1- pages-227-238.pdf>https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2004/ols2004v1- pages-227-238.pdfThis paper describes the problems Wayland is trying to solve.
I skimmed through it. I didn't read anything that precludes an implementation as an X protocol revision. Ditch last century's baggage (colormaps, fonts); use RENDER exclusively; replace the archaic COMPOUND_TEXT with UTF-8; etc…
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