On 09.06.2025 09:52, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
the idea for wayland is that there will be competing compositors like there are competing wm's(/compositors/desktops) based on x11. this competition allows for innovation but there is still agreement on the "bounds" between regular apps and these - so an app can display and work in all desktops pretty much the same (unless it starts to enter the domains of what each desktop does and assume things it shoudln't). wayland is the same. it doesn't cay a lot of x11 baggage.
This is not a progress for my opinion - this some sort of regression Instead of one high experienced X11 team - there will be a lot of small teams which will try to show off and crate a different wm/compositors But wm/compositors is not a application or widget that can be de-installed. It is the most important part of the Linux desktop Part that attract users, part that creates positive/negative experience on ALL Linux distribution at all. And if it fails - people say - Linux suck. Desktop team may not have such developers at all. For example XFCE. This all will create a lot of different wm/compositors without one solid direction of development. Issue is not that wayland needs some maturity, but wm/compositors need to be developed. But who is going to do it? Gnome team? KDE team? XFCE team? Do you think they are happy to re-write code and create unique GNOME/KDE/XFCE approach for GNOME/KDE/XFCE wm/compositors? Take a look on browser engines history. When developers refused to support windows browsers or firefox. That is very similar what wayland is doing.
