Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
by Qwertious on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:19AM
(#26758893)
AIUI rewriting X wouldn't be much use anyway, because the problem is mostly in the protocol not the actual codebase implementing the protocol.
Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
by turminal on Friday April 09, 2021 @03:20PM
(#26754883)
The problem here is that a lot of stuff X does relies on horribly unsafe (mis)features of X. And of course wayland had to break compatibility with those things.
Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
by michaelmrose on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:35PM
(#26755789)
If the user wants to do X which involves increased danger to the user giving users a way to tell the system that app X has the privilege of doing X but not allowing all applications to do X is potentially viable but telling users you don't need to do X anymore is a much harder sale.
It needn't be a prompt users will quickly be prompted to click yes to it could easily be an option in settings or at communicated at install time.
A conservative rewrite, that amends those things experience has shown were mistakes but were always retained for compatibility, is rare, since the impulse to rewrite is revolutionary in nature. A rewrite is treated as an opportunity to remake the world in a new image (with a new set of mistakes to uncover).