> but honestly who cares but aesthetes
Someone building the next Apple might care.
So, aesthetes making up virtually zero percent of Linux desktop users while handicapping the rest for years.
Under X11, I do not remember to have ever seen any disturbance in movie playing during window switching, but I have also never used GNOME.
If Wayland improves movie playing under GNOME, then it solves a GNOME bug, not an X11 bug.
I mean in thumbnails and while switching workspaces and all that... There's never any frozen frames, skips or anything. Yes, eventually X got compositing, but not for most of its life and not in mainstream WMs.
Re:Write a Wayland Compositor [video]
by pantalaimon on Friday December 30, 2022 @04:59PM
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Compiz has been around for 16 years now
Yeah, I did mention that in my comment and also that it's not Metacity/Mutter, KWin or popular. On the other hand, I've never seen Compiz perform this well.
You can see some small benefits in GNOME like movies still playing while window switching, nice shadows, no more tearing, etc. but honestly who cares but aesthetes. None of this was in popular demand. The security is nice but when was that ever exploited in the wild? Mostly I see downsides, like now there's multiple ways (or no way in some compositors) to dim screens...
I'm sure eventually we'll get all our features back but for now it's mostly a bunch of small irritations that add up.