George N. White III writes:
On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 18:48, Sam Varshavchik
<<URL:mailto:mrsam@courier-
mta.com>mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> 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
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URL:https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2004/ols2004v1-
pages-227-238.pdf>https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2004/ols2004v1-
pages-227-238.pdf
This 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…