Linux lacks the market share to make applications conform to Wayland
Linux lacks the market share to make applications conform to Wayland
Posted Feb 5, 2025 23:52 UTC (Wed) by DemiMarie (subscriber, #164188)In reply to: There are things that do not work on Wayland yet by ebassi
Parent article: What’s new in GTK, winter 2025 edition
There are two problems with this reasoning. First, such applications might choose to not support Wayland at all, and drop the Linux port instead if Xwayland isn’t sufficient. Linux doesn’t have enough of a market share to force application redesigns. Second, are you sure that multi-window user interfaces with application-driven window management are never the best way to design an application, even if one only needs to support large displays and will usually have multiple monitors?