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Re:The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it by galonk on Thursday October 19, 2017 @11:47AM (#15508897)
"Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor, if you didn’t know."

Let me just say thank you very much for adding this sentence :)

I feel like 50% of headlines on HN are written like "New version of qx58g" and somehow none of the headline, the comments, or the linked article will give any indication what qx58g is.

Re:The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it by stephengillie on Thursday October 19, 2017 @11:56AM (#15508993)
/s/qx58g/GenericPhrase

"New version of Pandora Nexus released."

Great - is this any relation to the 2 Pandoras or the several Nexuses? Does this play music on my phone or move assets into a VM? Neither, it syncs bookmarks between browsers.

Re:The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it by ethbro on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:25PM (#15510329)
> Pandora ... Nexus

Eventually we're going to run out of fancy nouns.

Re:The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it by bane on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:29PM (#15510362)
My favorite ones are the projects with project pages that describe themselves in terms of other buzzwordy project and trend names.

"Buzzy is a new rewrite of Salad using an extensible monad-free Vomit dialect based on modern neopatterns. (note you'll need FooQwang3.7.2.1-R2 extensions installed in your pillar-tab in order to use it interactively)"

At least techno-babble [1] could make you feel intimidated. This word salad nonsense just makes me feel utterly lost and apathetic.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnkT6C9Ose8

Re:The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it by Aloha on Thursday October 19, 2017 @12:54PM (#15509511)
Yeah. The "why do I care?" part if often missing from posts on HN.

The other posts I see are the ones exclaiming "X is harmful" while often only presenting a very narrowly construed use case, that doesnt fit the norm - or making a big to do about a nothing - another trope is posts promoting YAPL (yet another programming language) and YAF (yet another framework) - without making it clear why this programming language or framework is any better than the eleventeen other ones.

Re:The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it by mjw1007 on Thursday October 19, 2017 @01:20PM (#15509714)
It's helpful, but I still had to guess whether those are tiles as in tiled rendering or tiles as in a tiled window manager.

I think you have to know that Wayland uses the word "compositor" in a slightly odd way to get the right guess first.