On 2022-03-11 at 16:52, Emanuel Berg wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> There may be multiple reasons, but one of them is that the feature >> set supported by Wayland (and/or the associated protocol, if any) >> is not a superset of the feature set supported by the X protocol. > > They should have covered everything used anyway ... this must be a > blunder on their part.
My understanding (which is at best secondhand, and may well not be fully accurate, if accurate at all) is that they thought they *were* doing that, since obviously that one feature is a historical curiosity which can't possibly be useful to anybody, and is only present in the spec because the people who wrote the spec mistakenly thought it might turn out to be useful. Only to discover later that people actually *did* use that feature, but by that point it was too late to implement that feature in Wayland without breaking a lot of other things and/or requiring a deeper redesign than would be deemed practical. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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