Re:X12
by throwawaylinux on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:01AM
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3) Build a new system that supports the old system reasonably well and doesn't prevent people using and improving the old system until the new one meets their needs.
> If I had a dollar for every time I heard "$IMPORTANT_FEATURE is WIP in Wayland", I'd be able to get several pizzas delivered.
It's true though there have been features missing. It's good thing that they are being worked on though, no? The X protocol and the Xorg implementation are both abandonware, so your comment comes across as positive, because missing $IMPORTANT_FEATURE in X/Xorg is not WIP.
The thing that I find ridiculous about this attitude is that you have two choices:
1) Remove parts of the core that some (mostly old, unmaintained) applications rely on, which will break them. You'd probably have to call it "X12" now, but that's fine: most X11 applications would continue to work with no (or very few) modifications.
2) Throw out the entire system and build a new one from scratch, that literally no applications will work on until new toolkit backends are written and some applications themselves are rewritten or at least fixed up. Those same old, possibly unmaintained apps that would stop working in #1 are still not working, but now it's along with literally everything else too.
> RDP support is wip in wayland
If I had a dollar for every time I heard "$IMPORTANT_FEATURE is WIP in Wayland", I'd be able to get several pizzas delivered.