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imtringuedtoday at 11:08 AM2 repliesview on HN

The point of the protocol spec being minimal is that it enables a wide variety of implementations, something it definitely succeeded at.

I still don't know how people twist this obvious success into a failure.


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LeFantometoday at 11:57 AM

Xorg fans reverse all the normal Open Source logic.

Imagine we were talking about web browsers…

There should only be one! No security makes all my extensions work!

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superkuhtoday at 1:37 PM

Uh... lived experience? Try getting keyboard and mouse sharing working across all the waylands with the same software. Not having most of the features in the standard implementation leads to fragmentation which apparently you haven't run into with your use cases yet.