So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

Linux@lemmy.ml – 212 points – 1 years ago

Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite …

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Then the problem is that it's abandoned, not that it has stagnated

By all means, feel free to start working on it!

All the people who developed Xorg for 20+ years decided that creating and working on Wayland was a better use of their time. But I'm sure you know better...

The problem isn't that Xorg is spaghetti code (it's pretty good for a large C project, imho). The problem is that the X11 protocol was designed to expose the capabilities of 1980s display hardware.

Stop putting words in my mouth. I never mentioned spaghetti code, and i said nothing about being better or smarter than either Xorg or Wayland devs

You said that Xorg being abandoned is the problem. How should we interpret that, other than a criticism of the decision-making process of the devs?

Wayland will become a spaghetti too, unless you do "compositorhop" because one compositor is not complete and need to use another, idk if this would be a good idea