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 …

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 …

  • verdigris@lemmy.ml
    402·
    1 year ago

    The issue is that X was never a mature, feature-complete, stable project. It was always a hideous and bloated hodgepodge of disparate and barely working patches. The entire point of Wayland is to do exactly what you say tech should do: solve the particular problem (graphics server) well and cleanly, and limit itself to a definable set of features so it can actually reach that point of stability.

    • uis@lemmy.world
      43·
      1 year ago

      The issue is that X was never a mature, feature-complete, stable project.

      Looool. It was too stable, which means stagnation.

      bloated hodgepodge of disparate and barely working patches.

      You mean bloated protocol or bloated implementation? Because kwin_wayland is pretty bloated.

      The entire point of Wayland is to do exactly what you say tech should do: solve the particular problem (graphics server) well and cleanly, and limit itself to a definable set of features so it can actually reach that point of stability.

      Tying graphics server to audio server is very clean.