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Originally posted by Volta View Post
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Originally posted by acobar View Post
Someone, certainly, did, or Wayland would not be "just" a protocol, what ended been a stupid idea for a graphic foundation build around linux and for linux, and the 13+ years that it took to be barely usable is a testimony of it. We still have, so far, 4 competing, evolving, and duplicated, in effort sense, implementations of the basic blocks, but I hope they will, eventually, decrease to 2, as I don't see Gnome devs merging their efforts with others. We will see.
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Originally posted by Aryma View Posti hope they add colors management for colors blind like me
and do more protocol for video playback and DPI scaling
Full screen color management really doesn't have anything to do with client to server/compositor communication so it's not going to be part of the protocol. Instead it'll be handled the same way it's currently handled, by the compositor with ICC color profiles.
Originally posted by acobar View Postthe 13+ years that it took to be barely usable is a testimony of it.
Originally posted by acobar View PostWe still have, so far, 4 competing, evolving, and duplicated, in effort sense, implementations of the basic blocks, but I hope they will, eventually, decrease to 2, as I don't see Gnome devs merging their efforts with others. We will see.Last edited by Myownfriend; 05 November 2021, 03:59 PM.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostWill NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD support Wayland?
Will Illumos or OpenIndiana support Wayland?
Will any of the old proprietary Unixes like IBM AIX, HP-UX and Oracle Solaris support Wayland?
Illumos and OpenIndiana and Oracle Solaris all need major kernel work to add features you need for wayland compositors. Remember wayland compositors push a lot of things out of userspace and on to kernel features.
IBM AIX and HP-UX are most likely in the same pit. Something to remember IBM AIX, HP-UX and Oracle Solaris have not been putting developers into x.org X11 on bare metal either. Will those be able to keep using current X11 servers in future who knows as well.
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Originally posted by Myownfriend View Post
It's currently very usable and Wayland hasn't been around for 13 years let alone 13+. It's initial commit was in 2008 but it's client protocol didn't hit 1.0 until October 2012 and it's server protocol didn't hit 1.0 until July 2013.
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I'd love to hear what work you feel is being duplicated four times over.
Sure as hell it should be better handled but, as I said in another post, the ship already sailed.
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Originally posted by acobar View PostSo, following your thinking, many open source projects that took years to achieve 1.0 versions should also restart their lifespan? No, the right time to use is that of when the project begin and not some arbitrary version when the developer felt it was stable enough. Ask Linus and the developers of openssl as a short exercise.
Now on to your point. Your comparison between OpenSSL and Wayland doesn't really work. OpenSSL is a library that was initially created to implementing SSL, a protocol that was not only stable at the time but on version 3. Wayland is the actual protocol which I would argue is much more important to be in a stable state before any significant adoption and implementation is expected.
You're correct that the point that something reaches 1.0 shouldn't define it's lifespan but you can't act like the work adding support to compositors and toolkits was viable ever since it's first commit back in 2008.
Originally posted by acobar View PostYou mean all the duplicated effort done on GTK and Qt because all the complexity related to Wayland is not encapsulated on a central place
Originally posted by acobar View Postand then, and again, wlroots, Weston, Mutter, KDE Plasma and whatnot having to create particular solutions to deal with the shortcomings in the references?
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