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by falseassertions 1211 days ago
Except that nearly everything that makes the usual years-out-of-date Wayland gripe lists here are ALL specified protocols now, it's just a matter of time until they're implemented widely enough to put this to rest.

Fractional scaling, hotkeys, gamma control, screen capture, etc, all have protocols.

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I don't believe that this will happen in practice in any event. First, implementations have... let's say personality conflicts? That is, I would be shocked if GNOME replaces its screenshot protocol with the "standard" any time soon. Second, even when it's true it requires every single compositor to actually connect all the bits up. For instance, I don't use QWERTY if I can help it. So a little while back, I tried a new compositor that was based on wlroots, which supports changing keyboard layouts. Guess what I couldn't do, because that specific compositor hadn't gotten to plumbing that specific feature through? Guess what works on every single X11 window manager, no matter how barebones, because X11 can manage separation of concerns?
hdr is still mia