Re:Wayland misconceptions debunked
by de9xvnh7 on Sunday February 10, 2019 @12:40PM
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Most of the answers are either "well that's true, the protocol doesn't allow it, but implementations do it in non-standard ways" or "we are working on it" or "oh this is not a problem with Wayland, see, Wayland is just a protocol". i.e. at least half of the criticism, as of today, is still practically true.
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You can't even open application windows on Wayland without a protocol extension.
The core Wayland protocol doesn't do these things by design, but that doesn't mean end-users can't do them on Wayland compositors which support these use cases in the places that they're designed to be supported.
The end user doesn't care about protocols or compositors. The end user wants a system that can replace Xorg and do the same or even a better job. And, as of today, Wayland fails miserably at that.