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by entropy1111
2062 days ago
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Where can I find a list of protocols and standards, and what compositors have implemented them? I don't want to dig between issues and thousands of repos or docs. I imagine commercial software have even less patience, maybe that's why Zoom used the proprietary GNOME thing instead of the open standard. Wayland works really well, I think people who can't use it yet because of features they miss should just use x.org and stop complaining and harassing open source developers. I'm using sway and wayfire but I have no clue how they work behind the scenes or wayland itself. |
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Wayland is also a protocol and also documented, somewhere. I heard it has support for extensions and they are also in some repo. Search: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/
A big difference between the Wayland and X11 protocols is that X11 covers a lot more things, like drawing. Also, X11 has the concept of a client that is also a compositor and tons of interfaces for clients and compositors and the Xserver to interact. Wayland has none of those things, because the entity that implements the protocol is the compositor, unlike X.
Everything that's not covered by the Wayland protocol or extensions has to be defined/implemented by the Compositor, and that's where Fragmentation is killing us. Each compositor is allowed to implement whatever it wants to deal with those things. I am not aware of any standards here, although I would recommend trying to look if any XDG standards exist for those.