Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

[Ian Malone]

On 3 April 2014 14:50, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> I don't think we said anything contradictory at all. I pointed out
> that the Wayland developers are including a compatibility layer called
> XWayland that provides a backwards-compatible interface for
> applications and window managers that are designed for X-Windows.
> Rahul accurately pointed out that the nature of a compatibility
> wrapper is such that it would never have the same real-world
> performance as a pure implementation (such as x.org) and as such if
> window managers (which tend to use far more of the low-level API than
> applications do) want ideal performance, it is in their best interest
> to port to the new Wayland code instead of relying on the X-Windows
> compatibility.

In their best interest if needed. But you didn't try to claim it's the
*responsibility* of projects to change to Wayland.

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