alt Hacker NewsThis 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)?
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Do you have your logic inverted? Wayland is taking away accessibility. You can't blame any isv for that.
And why should he be?
He provided a working version for Linux, he will continue to provide a version for Linux.
Wayland is deliberately sabotaging the Linux desktop by forcing it's way in, developers have their own time and schedule and do not appreciate being forced to throw out working code just because others want to reinvent the wheel. If Wayland did it right they had proper backward compatibility and none of this breakage would happen
I don't think any of your points reflect what I was trying to communicate.
> You're not interested in addressing customers' needs
I would love to support Wayland, but it is my position that it is impossible to "support Wayland" for Talon. I can only support a subset of the features and only on specific compositors, and it would be a lot of work.
> or giving them ways to address their needs themselves
As I said at the top of the message you are replying to, I believe today users already have the tools to address their needs themselves with about the same level of jank I'd be able to provide on Wayland. If this is a veiled hard line on open source being the only way for users to address their needs themselves, we have a philosophical difference that won't be sorted out in this thread.
> If slack interactions are so unpleasant, why do you direct all support through it?
That's a whole new sentence. I was specifically referring to the support requests for Wayland, which in the long tail have been more hostile toward me than is likely warranted.
> "yes this is a hack, but we'll live with it for now until an actually good solution is available"
The hack is switching to X11, which is fully supported, or working around it in your user scripts, which has already been done by some users for their specific environment.