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Re:Wayland Core Protocol Is Tailored Only for Gnome and That... by c7DJTLrn on Sunday July 31, 2022 @04:05PM (#32298318)
It's arguable whether sway is "simple". Last I remember it clocked in at ~50k lines of C excluding wlroots.

Some X window managers are a few hundred lines.

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Re:Wayland Core Protocol Is Tailored Only for Gnome and That... by d_tr on Sunday July 31, 2022 @04:54PM (#32298750)
FWIW, i3 is in the same ballpark, maybe a bit less if I am not mistaken.
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Re:Wayland Core Protocol Is Tailored Only for Gnome and That... by Daishiman on Sunday July 31, 2022 @04:35PM (#32298584)
Sounds like functionality that can be turned into a common library.
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Re:Wayland Core Protocol Is Tailored Only for Gnome and That... by Gigachad on Monday August 01, 2022 @03:11AM (#32302998)
It is. Sway is based on WLRoots which you can easily import and build a new window manager on with minimal code.

Most of the wayland fud is either seriously out of date, mistaken, or malicious.

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