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>xdg-shell for application windows.

Which is implemented by literally who? I can see a GNOME mutter commit but can't find anyone else from a few minutes of googling.

Also: "As of June 2014, XDG-Shell protocol was not versioned and still prone to changes. "[1]

Who else loves to build software atop unstable APIs?

>The recent discussions are attempting to make more standards, and has been going on for 2 or 3 years now.

These should've been going on since the begin, really makes you think what kind of intent the Wayland founders had. Wayland is being pushed as the future and there still isn't even a way to have a universal fucking screenshotter, I guess it's a security feature to be locked out of your own desktop, right?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protoc...




>[xdg-shell] is implemented by literally who?

Uh... everyone. Mutter, Kwin, qwayland, wlroots, wlc, Sway, waymonad, Way Cooler, Weston, Enlightenment, and Mir all support it, as well as clients like GTK+, Qt, GLFW, SDL, EFL...

Look, you don't have to use Wayland. No one has said it's done, and Xorg still works fine. If it doesn't support everything you need, then it's not for you, no big deal.


>No one has said it's done, and Xorg still works fine.

Not when apps will exclusively choose to support it.


Well, woe is you then.




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