On Fri, 02 Dec 2016 19:11:46 -0600 "Gregory P. Ennis" <po...@pomec.net> wrote:
> Ahmad, > > Thank you for the link. That surely explains the problem. Looks like > environment variables are on their way out. > > Too Bad the Wayland developers did not take into account environment > variables. I am surprised Fedora incorporated Wayland over X11 with > such dire limitations. I use some specially defined environment > variables for ssh connections, and without these environment variables > the application software on the connected machine will not work > properly. I surely hope they fix this limitation. I would be nice if > advancement meant improvement instead of a declination. When I tried Wayland, it told me there was no way to set a custom keymapping. That's a show stopper for me, since I haven't used qwerty in so long that it's hunt and peck for me now. It seems that more and more, Fedora is following the open source dictum, 'Release early, release often', and getting the results that generates. Use the user community as testing, and the bugs generated point to required features that still need to be implemented. Instead of doing design. Software architects seem to be in short supply in the open source world. I expect that these things will show up over time, as the core functionality becomes stable, giving developers more time for bells and whistles. Fortunately, I don't use Gnome. I tried it and found it to be confusing. I probably could learn to use it, but why bother when there are perfectly good alternatives that have been tuned for efficient use on a desktop computer for over a decade. Hundreds of millions of people evolved a gui that works on desktops. Mobiles? Not so much. I don't think the use cases have much intersection, unfortunately, since that is what the cutting edge of user interface seems to be trying to achieve. Is this a case of 'Who Moved My Cheese?'? Maybe, but I'll just keep expending minimum energy rather than learn a new system. I can use the energy for other things. I do like the idea of Wayland, that it runs as the user after initialization. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
