GTK to remove X11 backend

[LibreQuest]

Here's the thing. It already exists; i'm using it on macOS. It's called Quartz. (which greatly inspired Wayland)

I'm just waiting for that brave soul to write an open source implementation for the BSDs.

To add; Wayland should've been API based, instead of protocol based. Canonical had the right idea with Mir (especially with native EGLStreams support), but they caved to Red Hat, zealots, and Co.

Hail IBM.

Mir is also GPL 3 which caused controversy compared to MIT, used by Xorg and Wayland.

 

[astyle]

Mir is also GPL 3 which caused controversy compared to MIT, used by Xorg and Wayland.

Mir has been re-written as a Wayland compositor, BTW...

I think it's impractical to expect a software project, conceived from an english-speaking country, to prioritize multi-lingual support. I mean, which is more economically feasible; multilingual support from a projects conception, or simply other foreign users learning the basics of english? I'm not trying to be contrarian, but most of what the world uses (from silicon to software) comes from America.

Microsoft has pretty decent support for Japanese and other Asian languages. And Open Source is not that far behind, generally speaking. Microsoft grew rich at least partially because of that - Asia is a HUGE market. So it may be that for Microsoft, it was a pretty decent return on investment to do multi-lingual support. When it comes to Open Source, the ideas in play are the same all over the planet: compete with non-free options.

Also: Did you know that Blender is Dutch? as is misc/orange3 ? KDE is not an American project, either.

 

[kpedersen]

Wayland protocol is simply better designed and has X.org issues sorted.

Better designed? Perhaps. But it outright lacks 90% of what Xorg does (by design, it is beyond the scope). Wayland is more comparable to MS-DOS rather than an enterprise ready multi-user operating system.

However many will not know that because the reddit, twitter brigaders only really need to play their computer games and are able to overlook anything that the actual industry needs.

Red Hat is interested in it because they can simplify what they need to provide support for and still get paid. This is a feature in itself but I certainly can't say that "Wayland is better" vs Xorg.