alt Hacker NewsHi, I'm the developer of Talon.
It's possible to do the simple compositor specific hacks from Talon's scripting system to give yourself partial Wayland support at roughly the quality I'd be able to provide myself, and I know of a couple efforts to do this.
The tentative plan for "dropping support for X11" is just to do one more public Linux X11 release, stop there, leave it available to download, and make it very clear what to expect when you download for Linux or run on Wayland. I plan to continue supporting X11 on the paid version indefinitely.
Most requests relating to Wayland on the Slack have not been offers to help, and way too many have ended up being unpleasant conversations.
I have a standing offer to reconsider my stance if someone can show the vast majority of the necessary APIs are available and well supported without compositor specific hacks.
For some of the other points above, consider me disappointed but not surprised.
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This seems like it basically confirms ggp's complaints: You're not interested in addressing customers' needs, or giving them ways to address their needs themselves, and are instead taking a "if this doesn't meet my standards you're not allowed to do it" standpoint.
If slack interactions are so unpleasant, why do you direct all support through it?
Is there no way you could say "yes this is a hack, but we'll live with it for now until an actually good solution is available"? Maybe it could be added in such a way that it's easy to remove later (abstraction, encapsulation)?
Hi Lunixbochs, thank you for the comment. One of my take aways from the article was that you were considering removing the ability for Talon to work on x11 in the future. I appreciate the correction. I understand that you're dealing with a lot of unpleasant support requests (especially because people who have to use Talon are probably frustrated at having lost the ability to use their machine normally). I am sorry if I added to that, I do genuinely think you've made the world a better place.
A KDE developer commented: https://nocoffei.com/?p=451#comment-736
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>As a community, gather together, and successfully implement the entire API surface needed for Talon on GNOME, KDE, and wlroots,
Can you help find where we can work out this list?
An all or nothing probably isn’t going to work, but we can chip away at this.
There are definitely people who want to help.