alt Hacker NewsOne of the issues with Wayland is that it forces every compositor to reimplement the X server, badly.
So you can't really "fix it", short of patching e. g. Gnome's compositor, with patches that will never be accepted upstream.
One of the issues with Wayland is that it forces every compositor to reimplement the X server, badly.
So you can't really "fix it", short of patching e. g. Gnome's compositor, with patches that will never be accepted upstream.
It's also an 80% solution, the same thing so many rust "rewrites" are notorious for. Sure it finally mostly works at this point. Mostly. But it took a decade of kicking and screaming to get here and there are still edge cases that don't work, many clearly viewed as wontfix simply because there isn't enough popular support to force the hand of the purists. Hopefully llms make a community bootleg wayland protocol effort viable.