Comment by wooptoo

13 days ago

Am I the only one who's not buying into the Wayland hype? I just want X11 support not to fall into disrepair, as I see nothing wrong with it.

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bee_rider  13 days ago

I don’t see much Wayland hype. It’s boring plumbing for most people, isn’t it? Most of us are just going along with whatever the volunteer plumbing community decided to put together.

kelnos  12 days ago

(xfwl4 author here.)

I'm also not a big fan of Wayland, to be honest. But that's the way the winds are blowing. X11 has its problems, but even if they are fixable, no one seems to want to work on Xorg anymore. I'm certainly not prepared to maintain it and push it forward. Are you?

Depending on Xorg today is more or less ok, but I do expect distros will stop shipping it eventually.

pantalaimon  13 days ago

> I just want X11 support not to fall into disrepair

Are you also willing to maintain it?

  • superkuh  13 days ago

    Are you willing to write accessibility support for the new xfce only wayland compositor? How will you get every other wayland compositor to support your non-'wayland core' accessibility extension?

    People like to frame things like the waylands are some sort of default and nothing is being lost and no one is being excluded.

    • zamalek  12 days ago

      Everyone has settled on an accessibility standard (Matt Campbell's). So it's not "your" accessibility protocol, it's already "the" accessibility protocol. This is working as intended IMO: allow things to compete and future in the wild and then pick the fittest.

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  • rpcope1  13 days ago

    Honestly at this point, I would be willing to pay $10-20 a month just for someone to maintain Xorg and xfree86. I really doubt I am the only one.

treve  13 days ago

Some cognitive dissonance going on here. The vast majority of current Linux Desktop users are on Wayland, and X11 is phased out across the board. Calling it hype is absurd.