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Enlightenment Mysteriously Drops Wayland Support

Posted by Soulskill on from the gone-by-the-waylandside dept.

jones_supa writes: According to Enlightenment 0.19.12's release notes, it's an important release that fixes over 40 issues, which is quite something, considering that previous versions had only a few improvements, with most of them being minor. However, the big news is that 0.19.12 drops support for the Wayland display server. Unfortunately, the Enlightenment developers have omitted to mention why they decided to remove any form of support for Wayland from this release, and if it will return in upcoming releases of the software.

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  1. Re:I guess they realised... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows

  2. Re:I guess they realised... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    it takes some gal

    Found the problem. It's more of that horrible misogyny in the Linux community.

  3. Re:I guess they realised... by Alomex · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's just nobody's really asking for a replacement,

    Except SunOS which replaced it with SunNews,

    --Ok, but apart from SunOS no one is asking for a replacement.

    Well NeXTSTEP replaced it with display postscript.

    --Ok, apart from SunOS and NeXTSTEP no one wants a replacement.

    Android dumped it.

    -- Yes, aside from SunOS and NeXTSTEP and Android, who else wanted a replacement?

    OSX replaced it with Quartz as well as iOS.

    -- All right, but apart from SunOS, NeXTSTEP, Android, OSX, iOS what have the Romans ever done for us, i mean who wants a replacement?

    Ubuntu with Mir and the Xorg with Wayland?

    --Oh, SHUT UP!