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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. I guess they realised... by Viol8 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... that Wayland is a solution for a problem thats already been solved better.

    1. Re:I guess they realised... by jon3k · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

      No one asked Henry Ford to make cars, either. This attitude, specifically in technology, is baffling to me.

    2. Re:I guess they realised... by fisted · · Score: 5, Insightful

      init really was a bug ridden piece of garbage

      Care to point out a couple of those bugs?

      SystemD implements everything init did

      And a lot more, yes

      but does it right.

      Hahaha, yeah, it probably looks right from a Windows-centric POV

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      CLI paste? paste.pr0.tips!
    3. Re:I guess they realised... by Uecker · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It is a myth that supporting old drawing primitives in X11 somehow slows down modern clients and you can essentially have the same buffer handling as Wayland with X. In fact, the design of Wayland is basically copied from X minus some old parts which are not needed by modern clients. The problem with this is: Breaking compatibility with a decades old protocol for no good reason is just moronic.