After more than forty years, everyone knows that it’s time to retire the X Window System – X11 for short – on account of it being old and decrepit. Or at least that’s what t…
I want to correct “refuse to work” with “do not work” but it is a completely valid take that some Wayland stewards resist adding certain functionality (especially the GNOME folks).
I will take issue with “requires a rewrite”. Wayland is designed to be extended. It is more that things need to be added than fixed. Almost all the issues are due to security in Wayland. You need explicit support to do things (whereas X11 apps just do them and nobody stops them—even when they should).
Totally fair take.
I want to correct “refuse to work” with “do not work” but it is a completely valid take that some Wayland stewards resist adding certain functionality (especially the GNOME folks).
I will take issue with “requires a rewrite”. Wayland is designed to be extended. It is more that things need to be added than fixed. Almost all the issues are due to security in Wayland. You need explicit support to do things (whereas X11 apps just do them and nobody stops them—even when they should).