Changes and complaints

Posted Feb 23, 2012 17:05 UTC (Thu) by daglwn (guest, #65432)
In reply to: Changes and complaints by JoeBuck
Parent article: Changes and complaints

The X-as-a-client solution only works as long as the toolkits support X and the applications using the toolkits don't have to do anything special (build flags, etc.) to keep that X support.

I think it highly likely the toolkits will support X for a while but I don't know whether applications will have to link to them in a special way to get that support. Is it a mode bit in the toolkit library?

Changes and complaints

Posted Feb 23, 2012 20:59 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

What do application developers do now when recompiling for Windows or Mac? IME, it's approximately nothing on the whole. I don't see why the decision between X and Wayland would be any different.

Changes and complaints

Posted Feb 27, 2012 22:45 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link] (1 responses)

If the toolkits drop X support (without offering a better replacement), then you should be complaining to them, and not to the Wayland developers for doing the right thing.

Changes and complaints

Posted Mar 1, 2012 3:25 UTC (Thu) by Zizzle (guest, #67739) [Link]

But that seems to the norm, at least in the GNOME/GTK+ world.

Hence why the mate project has to rename nearly every binary in the system.

The GNOME guys decided that GNOME2 was instantly deprecated as soon as you install GNOME3 - no parallel install possible.

I can see them doing the same thing once Wayland is usable.