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by calvinmorrison 950 days ago
And eventually KDE, Gnome, and so forth will develop a shared layer on top of Wayland to handle such core functions can call them Wprops, they'll all implement the same _NET_WAYLAND_HINTS and a new group freewayland.org will come together to standardize it. Then waykill will work globally
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But of course by then (late 2030s) we as an industry will appreciate that Wayland has deep unfixable flaws and nobody is willing to maintain it and everyone should switch to ... V-something... let's say "Vineyard", the new graphical system that everyone agrees we should switch to ASAP because this time we got it right;)
In the 2030s everyone will finally acknowledge the sheer elegance of Arcan ( www.arcan-fe.com ) and admit out loud that Wayland's "just use a GUI toolkit!" was cope for Wayland being a reflexively underspecified protocol, an unfortunate result of its devs suffering from X11-PTSD.
Vineyard I can actually see, after Martha's Vineyard -- following the Red Hat trend of naming system components after Massachusetts towns (Wayland, Weston, Dracut, Plymouth...).
Lol. You must be new to SW development "good practices". If they don't "release" a new library version every second year, "god" will strike them. /s