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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Wayland Makes Progress
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:15:59 -0700
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:02:34 +0100
Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> wrote:

> Wayland is still not working on some core stuff, so it's not like
> they had huge spare resource.

I'm prepared to believe that this is also true, but it's *definitely*
the case that they've spent years pushing back on the idea that some
extremely commonplace features of a display server are actually needed
instead of being Actually Bad And Suspicious For Some Reason.