Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclusions

Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by Hendrikto on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:53AM (#40155855)

> X HAS those things. Ubuntu's version of Gnome for example has supported fractional DPI scaling and per monitor scaling on X11 since I think 20.04. […] Xrandr has made this possible for years with some setup.

Via some ugly hacks that degrade performance and make things look blurry. It‘s not the same.

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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by znpy on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:12AM (#40156000)

I mentioned network transparency in another comment, and wayland will never have that unless they implement that "degrade performances and make things look blurry".

So meh, you give and you take, life is a compromise.

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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by Vilian on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:22AM (#40156074)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

here, found the wayland network transparency, fix your comment

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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by znpy on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:43PM (#40160704)

Not officially supported, irrelevant

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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by orangeboats on Thursday April 25, 2024 @02:11PM (#40161066)

If you have known the structure of the Wayland protocol before making the comment, you'd know that "official support" is a red herring.

The only official thing provided by the Wayland project (other than the protocols themselves described in XML) is the wayland-server and wayland-client library pair, which is more or less just a serializer and deserializer of the protocol.

There is also Weston, but we don't talk about it.

Waypipe is about as official as Kwin, Mutter or wlroots, and yet we don't disregard those projects as being irrelevant due to their unofficial status.

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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by phendrenad2 on Monday May 06, 2024 @04:25AM (#40272438)

> "official support" is a red herring

That sounds like a bad thing, no? ;)

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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by zamalek on Thursday April 25, 2024 @12:58PM (#40160020)

There are maybe five people in the world that care about network transparency (an exaggeration, but probably not more than 2 magnitudes of order off). X11 was built for every scenario conceivable. Wayland is being built for end-user thick devices. What you decide not to do is more important than what you decide to do.

And some dedicated soul managed to get it working anyway, as a sibling comment has pointed out.

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