On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 03:33:58PM +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 08:46 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > One of the motivations for Wayland was that the X.Org was becoming > > unmaintainable and suffered from design choices that are no longer > > relevant. > > Is it really unmaintainable, or is it that programmers just cannot be > arsed to learn how to maintain someone else's code? > > And how does one person determine that some features are no-longer > needed? It's quite clear that in several years of Wayland being around > that various features needed by people using X have yet to be > implemented. > > This whole idea of "I can't work on this, let's throw it all out and > start again" is just incompetence. And you'll find several OS projects > that have spent many years, repeatedly going through that process and > never actually coming to any fruition because of it. > > Don't let those people near the kernel code.
X11 is *old* and there is a lot of complexity involved, particularly when it comes to compositing libraries. Wayland takes the X server out of the conversation, which can improve security and efficiency, and also makes implimentation simpler. -- Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
