On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 4:40 AM Christian Britz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kevin, > > On 2022-03-08 23:01 UTC+0100, Kevin Exton wrote: > > I tried Wayland some years ago now (might have been when they first > > trialled it in Ubuntu) but decided not to stick with it. > > > > Since more desktop environments are beginning to choose Wayland as the > > default display protocol, I was wondering if others think there's > > significant user benefits to making the change? > > I had it running for a while recently with KDE Plasma, because I wanted > to try out waydroid, which only supports Wayland. My impression was, > that it has improved a lot and is in a somewhat usable state, but I > quickly changed back to X. > Here's something about the X ecosystem that I don't understand anymore. I've read the statement that "X isn't developed anymore, only XFree86". In other words, X source was re-based to Xfree86 a long time ago. So it must be that in the XFree86-based X Windows, only the X server is under active development, nothing more than that. Is that accurate? > I felt that programs designed for X and programs designed for Wayland > don't interact well (copy/paste and so on) and Plasma support for > Wayland is not as mature as for X. ........ > My biggest concern is that we will see over the next years a big > division of the GUI application eco system. Some programs will stay > optimised for X, some will even require Wayland, like the mentioned > waydroid. Hopefully a full transparency can somehow be achieved. > And isn't that what happened once already? When XFree86 re-based X Windows? > Regards, > Christian > > -- > http://www.cb-fraggle.de > >
