FOSDEM: The Wayland display server [LWN.net]

FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

Posted Feb 16, 2012 13:53 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
In reply to: FOSDEM: The Wayland display server by khim
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You are presuming that UI consistency is a primary goal of the display server.

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FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

Posted Feb 16, 2012 15:24 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

UI consistency is requirement for a popular OS. Sure, if you are not interesting in that then you can have different goals, but then it's not obvious why you should care about the fact that different programs will have a different decorations and different behavior.

FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

Posted Feb 17, 2012 13:29 UTC (Fri) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]

'... is a goal for the display server' does not follow from '... is a goal for a popular OS'.

I agree that the latter is essential, yes. But window decorations are only one part of the battle if your apps are using different toolkits which look superficially different, have a different button order, disparate configurations, use different file chooser and/or print dialogs, and in general are designed by two completely separate teams of people who have completely different ideas about UIs.