On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:44:59PM -0400, George N. White III wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 18:48, Sam Varshavchik
<mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> wrote:
> Tim via users writes:
>
> > Sam Varshavchik:
> > > Sadly, I expect that Fedora at some point will become exclusively
> > > Gnome and KDE, because only these stacks will support Wayland, in
> > > order to ditch X, and also target the same userbase. This won't
> > > happen anytime soon, but it will happen.
> >
> > I'm still not convinced Wayland's a great idea. The old X had a ton
of
> > features that people wanted, but Wayland doesn't. *If* they
> > reimplement them, how's Wayland going to be different from X? If they
> > don't reimplement them, why would those people want to use it?
>
> I couldn't agree more. Wayland is a solution in search of problems.
Read
https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2004/ols2004v1-pages-227-238.pdf
This paper describes the problems Wayland is trying to solve.
is a more accessable listing of the reasons wayland exists.
Granted it's from almost 9 years ago now, but it does give some
interesting reasoning IMHO.
kevin