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| From | Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: KDE Goes Wayland |
| Date | 2025-12-15 22:53 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10hq3hh$28cv4$6@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:22:16 -0800, John Ames wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:08:12 -0000 (UTC) > Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote: > >>> If a project is as open and direct about aiming to supplant and >>> replace another project as Wayland has been, expecting it to offer >>> feature parity with the thing it's replacing (and a relatively >>> seamless switch in terms of user experience) is entirely >>> reasonable. >> >> Not really. X11 is full of legacy baggage (e.g. graphics API) which >> needs to be dumped. > > That may well be so, but if they make bad judgement calls about what > is or isn't needless cruft, they will learn that the hard way ... That lesson has been learned over about 40 years of experience with X11. You will note that the development of Wayland has not exactly been rushed.
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Re: KDE Goes Wayland Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-15 03:08 +0000
Re: KDE Goes Wayland rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-15 04:03 +0000
Re: KDE Goes Wayland John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-15 10:22 -0800
Re: KDE Goes Wayland Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-15 22:53 +0000
Re: KDE Goes Wayland "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-12-15 16:09 -0500
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