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Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostI wouldn't be surprised if Cinnamon just quits and leaves the job to Gnome 3 Classic + maybe a custom extension here and there.
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GNOME 3 classic is nowhere close to Cinnamon for features
Originally posted by dee. View PostI would be very surprised. The Cinnamon team has put so much effort into diverging from Gnome by now that they're not likely to just scrap all that and go back to Gnome...
Gnome-shell frippery is far more competitive, but they get hammered by the constant breakage of gnome-shell extensions. I basically see a need to redo the Cinnamon work for Wayland when apps get ported to wayland, meaning to re-fork from a single newer version or else backport the Wayland changes. As long as games, video players, and other graphically demanding applications are on X, however, it will be an actual disadvantage to run Wayland unless you mostly use a wayland compatable browser and little else.
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Originally posted by Luke View PostAs long as games, video players, and other graphically demanding applications are on X, however, it will be an actual disadvantage to run Wayland unless you mostly use a wayland compatable browser and little else.
The problems I foresee are more with compatibility on some things that rely heavily on the X infrastructure for some of their functionality... for example, audio plugins: VST plugins on Linux are currently hardcoded to use plain X for GUI display, and that's not likely to change very soon... also, IIRC, Xembed is used to display plugin GUIs for LV2 plugins... and it's not just a problem for audio plugins, it applies to other software with plugin architectures - what happens when the host software uses Wayland, but the plugin uses X...?
But I'm confident these issues will be solved eventually.
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