Re: [dev] Wayland compositors

2021-09-16 Thread Tobias Bengfort
Hi, I think much of the hate for wayland is misdirected. Don't get me wrong, the state of wayland is bad. But IMHO that is not entirely the wayland people's fault. What they did is saying: "Hey guys, we are tired of maintaining X. We will start a new project with a tighter focus. The wider l

Re: [dev] Wayland compositors

2021-09-16 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Hello guys, I recently tried out Wayland and here are some of my thoughts. They market it as a "shiny new object". OK. So I compiled all the libs, and tried the dwl compositor. I like suckless and dwl supposed to be like dwm but on wayland. Let's perform a simple test: I open the foot terminal (

Re: [dev] Wayland compositors

2021-09-16 Thread Markus Wichmann
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 08:26:27AM +0200, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > The gaslighting regarding Wayland wasted me a lot of time, as I'm told > or I read every year that _now_ would be the time to switch to Wayland. Just like _this_ year is the year of the Linux desktop? And then, when the market share