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@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.
I think https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_wayland_situation&... 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