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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by smoldesu on Sunday July 03, 2022 @07:56PM (#31972049)
That's fine, I hadn't even gotten around to adopting GTK4 yet.

> extant issues of Wayland clients and compositors have no bearing with whether GTK5 should drop the X11 backend; file bugs for toolkits, compositors, and the protocols...

Ah yes, that does seem like a sane way to address concerns with dropping Xorg entirely. Even the Titanic shipped with lifeboats, they'd be wise to have a backup in case their "unsinkable" window server breaks on many people's configurations.

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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by hulitu on Monday July 04, 2022 @11:47AM (#31978362)
Your OSS attitude is so nineties ( when people actually built things who did not break every other year). Their idea of SW is a Titanic with some handles on the side instead of boats.
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