{"id":32439,"date":"2020-10-28T11:49:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T15:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=8f5c0884b1475b855b22cce6cde99e90"},"modified":"2020-10-28T11:49:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T15:49:59","slug":"on-abandoning-the-x-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32439","title":{"rendered":"On Abandoning the X Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com\/2020\/10\/on-abandoning-x-server.html\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Early on I was pretty excited about Wayland, but it's become clear that they \"solved\" the problems with X being largely supplanted by a morass of largely-incompatible extensions only semi-standardized by community agreement by designing a protocol that declares all kinds of necessary-but-difficult features \"out of scope\" and consigns them to ... a morass of largely-incompatible extensions that aren't even semi-standardized by community agreement, which are now full of non-portable bodges.  \r\n\r\nUnless and until there is a strong agreement among major players (right now, specifically between Gnome, KDE, and the wlroots libraries) around a single protocol for screen capture (for capture, for color pickers, for screen sharing...), a single protocol for the desktop inter-op stuff that used to be covered by ICCM, a single protocol for remoting, a single protocol for input interception and injection, etc. Wayland is somewhere between \"not ready\" and \"actively a problem\".<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=24920183\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32439\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}