Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Wayland Makes Progress
Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 08:43:47 -0700
Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <20260506084347.000049fe@gmail.com>
References: <10sv1kk$gjtg$1@dont-email.me> <slrn10v6ion.acg.rotflol2@geidiprime.bvh> <10t001q$pcmf$5@dont-email.me> <20260430095306.0000330b@gmail.com> <10t01vb$2p94u$1@dont-email.me> <20260430101559.00000fe5@gmail.com> <10t0kv8$10lf6$8@dont-email.me> <20260501135638.000014d3@gmail.com> <10t3a7f$1og72$5@dont-email.me> <20260501155425.00007474@gmail.com> <10t3bmo$1og72$8@dont-email.me> <20260504152020.000053cd@gmail.com> <10tbbff$1nih$5@dont-email.me> <20260505081230.00005ae5@gmail.com> <10tdork$oc5h$3@dont-email.me> <20260505152642.000071fd@gmail.com> <10tef2c$u1ph$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Injection-Date: Wed, 06 May 2026 15:43:51 +0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="1326271"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19WfLhfBQqowOeP8BJph/njbL4oGzpymhA="; posting-host="8fe7595861e993358a3bc8817a1c8179"
Cancel-Lock: sha1:kuu8xfCqMo8n45AoirzWIg3Hztk= sha256:tsyy8DGpF0sIx/ebiCIdym6NHhKV+7CUixGEHCapmu8= sha1:aaOB6PsOWoPEbrQSEQY0uMpTNUk=
X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32)
Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86178

On Wed, 6 May 2026 04:11:56 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D=E2=80=99Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> > > Maybe the KiCad folk should see the writing in the wall ... ? =20
> >
> > *Why* should they? Clearly this works for them, and for their paying
> > customers ... =20
>=20
> Maybe it doesn=E2=80=99t work as well as it should. The only way to be su=
re is
> to do actual user-interface testing.

You're assuming they don't - but either way, that's their affair and is
not at *all* germane to the question of whether it's reasonable of you
to expect application developers to redesign their entire layout/work-
flow to suit the idiosyncracies of the Wayland devs' worldview.