Re:Debian 10 “Buster” Released
by anaphor on Saturday July 06, 2019 @08:54PM
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I would say "very significant" is understating it. Anything that touches Xlib/XCB/etc would need to be at least modified, if not rewritten completely.
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How about gtk-2.0 apps?
That’s probably not a bad thing. We have the benefit of hindsight of decades of GUI management and it probably isn’t more than a weekend project to get a baseline library worked out to build cool things (like awesomewm and i3 and dwm) off of. Which probably already exists.
> it probably isn’t more than a weekend project to get a baseline library worked out to build cool things (like awesomewm and i3 and dwm) off of
what technical justifications are you using to make this claim?
Isn't that what wlroots is? And it's taken many years of work by multiple contributors and still isn't really finished