Last time I tried to use Wayland was indeed quite some time ago. I should try again!
Re:Wayland on OpenBSD
by Monsterovich on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:16AM
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> Here's a screenshot of me sharing a window in firefox:
You forgot to mention that it doesn't work without portals and Pipewire dependency, and portals have to be implemented individually for each DE.
> I use global hotkeys to switch between keyboard layouts, see the screenshot. Works fine.
Because the KDE developers went to a lot of effort to make it work. That doesn't mean it will work well in other DEs and that is Wayland's problem.
You've moved the goalposts on this argument now. "$Thing is hard to implement on Wayland and requires quite a lot of effort by each DE"[1] is a very different argument to "$Thing doesn't work on Wayland". Pretty much everything you listed works well in Fedora with Gnome/Mutter.
If the maintainers of the DEs are happy with the effort, then I don't see a problem? (unless you're a DE maintainer, in which case - fair enough).
[1] When I first wrote this sentence I wrote "X is hard to implement" using X as a metasyntactic variable before I realised that was incredibly confusing in context!
Here's a screenshot I just took on my plasma / wayland desktop.
https://imgur.com/a/IBI6u3S
Here's a screenshot of me sharing a window in firefox:
https://imgur.com/a/LpdyqIl
> Global hotkeys
I use global hotkeys to switch between keyboard layouts, see the screenshot. Works fine.
> Alternative / switchable / tunable keyboard layouts and input methods. Not fancy stuff, just, say, typing Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Japanese characters.
I use global hotkeys to switch between keyboard layouts, see the screenshot. Works fine.
> All these things are is some sort of disarray under Wayland currently
This all basically worked out of the box. I'm really not seeing where this disarray is. Have you actually used wayland, or are you regurgitating taking points from 5 years ago?