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by thedaly 946 days ago
Firefox, pretty much all electron based apps, there are lots of applications that seem to interface directly with wayland.
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Quekid5 946 days ago
Electron apps interface with Electron-the-platform (and have no direct knowledge of Wayland) so it doesn't seem to make much sense to single that out?
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OJFord 946 days ago
Single what out, all of them? ,'Electron-the-platform' does then, via which all 'Electron apps' (single thing or not) do, which is what GP's saying? It works this way for Electron-the-platform... And therefore every Electron app that uses it?
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comex 946 days ago
The point is that Electron-the-platform is playing a similar role to GTK or Qt: it talks to Wayland, and the application talks to it. Therefore the application is not interfacing directly with Wayland, and claiming that it is would be singling out Electron from the category of UI toolkits.

But it depends on your definition of “application”.

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OJFord 946 days ago
Yeah, I'm not sure how now, but I think I misread/misunderstood the comment I defended. Can't now read it any other way but as a claim that they typically don't use Electron for it and instead talk to X/Wayland directly. (I have no idea, but would have assumed Electron handled it sufficiently for the vast majority.)
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