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by tsimionescu
851 days ago
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For a very simple reason: developers don't want to support multiple backends for their app, and end users don't want to install two different windowing systems to support different apps that made different choices. The situation on Linux is already pretty bad w.r.t. having to install multiple big frameworks, with some apps assuming Gnome and others KDE. Imagine GTK chose to move to Wayland, but Qt chose to stick to X - you would probably end up with 4 different combos on many systems to support all expectations. |
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Yeah, that is why in my code i don't bother with Wayland and just stick with X11 :-P (though things largely work on Wayland via XWayland, aside from a few things like some code i wrote that resets the mouse cursor position manually to allow for scrolling/panning/rotating without being limited by where the cursor is - well, under Wayland this limitation will exist, but it is a minor one).