Comment by _flux

To me, this is the first time Wayland feels like it's not a waste of time. The display server does not need to have the complexity of window managing on top the surface management. I certainly share the author's sentiment:

> Although, I do not know for sure why the original Wayland authors chose to combine the window manager and Wayland compositor, I assume it was simply the path of least resistance.

Although I'm not sure if it was the least resistance per se (as a social phenomenon), but just that it's an easier problem to tackle. Or maybe the authors means the same thing.

(That and the remote access story needs to be fixed. It just works in X11. Last time I tried it with a system that had 90 degree display orientation, my input was 90 degrees off from the real one. Now, this is of course just a bug, but I have a strong feeling that the way architecture Wayland has been built makes these kind of bugs much easier to create than in X11.)