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gsorayesterday at 5:28 PM1 replyview on HN

Wayland modularity is the gift that keeps on giving.


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imiricyesterday at 7:13 PM

You can't be serious. Wayland is the opposite of modular, and the concept of an extensible protocol only creates fragmentation.

Every compositor needs to implement the giant core spec, or, realistically, rely on a shared library to implement it for them. Then every compositor can propose and implement arbitrary protocols of their own, which should also be supported by all client applications.

It's insanity. This thing is nearly two decades old, and I still have basic clipboard issues[1]. This esoteric cutouts feature has no chances of seeing stable real-world use in at least a decade from now.

[1]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466041

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