Hi, On 31 March 2016 at 00:16, Drew DeVault <[email protected]> wrote: > Simply because xrandr was/is a poorly implemented mess doesn't mean that > we are going to end up making a poorly implemented mess. We have the > benefit of hindsight. After all, xorg is a poorly implemented mess but > we still made Wayland, didn't we? (Though some could argue that we've > just ended up with a well implemented mess...)
X and Wayland protocols have very different design principles guiding them. X (often by necessity) exposes as much as possible of its internal workings to clients, and allows total external manipulation. That's not the case for Wayland, so what you're proposing is a significant departure. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
