alt Hacker NewsI thought this too and originally thought that’s what Wayland was going to do but it went off and did its own thing.
I’m all for an X12.
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bdhcuidbebe • today at 12:31 AM
Be the change you want to see.
Also happy winter solstice.
I thought this too and originally thought that’s what Wayland was going to do but it went off and did its own thing.
I’m all for an X12.
Be the change you want to see.
Also happy winter solstice.
An X12 was briefly considered by the community before adopting Wayland: https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/X12/
If you take the time to read through that (very partial) list of cruft and footguns in X11 it probably makes it a little easier to understand why a clean-slate approach was able to attract momentum and why many hands-on involved developers were relatively tired of X11. Critics would of course respond that backwards compatibility is worth the effort and rewrites are often the wrong call, etc. It's the Python 2/3 debate and many others.