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Re:Wayland Core Protocol Is Tailored Only for Gnome and That... by jrm4 on Sunday July 31, 2022 @04:46PM (#32298680)
See, all of that makes a lot of sense. What doesn't make sense to me is

"Hey, so decades of work has gone into Window Managers and Desktop Environments. How will we preserve those going forward with this?"

And the answer appears to have been "Eh, we wont. Maybe later? They can just rewrite them all or something." Madness.

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Re:Wayland Core Protocol Is Tailored Only for Gnome and That... by majewsky on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:16PM (#32322360)
Because the developers of window managers and desktop environments are precisely the people that benefit from foregoing backwards compatibility and getting rid of all the duct tape and zip ties that hold the modern X stack together. It is true that a duct-taped thing can work very well after sufficient iterations, but you absolutely don't want to be maintaining it.
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