libdisplay-info Started To Address The Wayland Fragmentation Around EDID/DisplayID

[phoronix]

Phoronix: libdisplay-info Started To Address The Wayland Fragmentation Around EDID/DisplayID

There has been a known problem for some time that with the increasing number of different Wayland compositors out there, there is a lot of fragmentation when it comes to display EDID/DisplayID handling. Thankfully libdisplay-info has been started with hopes of addressing that issue...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=libdisplay-info

[birdie]

Wayland is fragmentation. I wonder how many years will pass before someone says "enough is enough" and addresses this <del>madness</del> peculiar design choice.

[NobodyXu]

Wayland is fragmentation. I wonder how many years will pass before someone says "enough is enough" and addresses this <del>madness</del> peculiar design choice.

Wayland protocol does not cause fragmentation, it is the implementations that refuse to share the code.
P.S., X is also a protocol, and there are also multiple X server implementations.

[caligula]

Could xorg also use this library?

[Nille]

Wayland protocol does not cause fragmentation,

It is if you leave important details up to others.

it is the implementations that refuse to share the code.

They are all FOSS. But its like always the "not invented here" problem. or that others have to add there work to you even if they don't know or care for you. It total fine of a project picks code from other projects.

[Quackdoc]

this is nice. I would love for this to be the first step towards proper DPI scaling instead of the broken system we currently have. I believe QT has DPI awareness. I'm not sure if GTK supports DPI awareness, but DPI based scaling is far superior to the crap shoot scaling we use now. of course wayland would also need a generic way to implement this.

[carewolf]

So it doesn't contain any code yet?

[cl333r]

Wayland is fragmentation. I wonder how many years will pass before someone says "enough is enough" and addresses this <del>madness</del> peculiar design choice.

Wayland took so many years because it was a horribly hard and desperate undertaking to begin with which somewhat reminds me of this Chinese man trying to catch a falling tree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEKPHbE3NmI

[Vistaus]

Wayland is fragmentation. I wonder how many years will pass before someone says "enough is enough" and addresses this <del>madness</del> peculiar design choice.

That has already been done and it's called Arcan: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...0.6.1-Released

[nist]

Wayland is fragmentation. I wonder how many years will pass before someone says "enough is enough" and addresses this <del>madness</del> peculiar design choice.

Because there is not democracy. The power is the only force.