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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> skribis: |
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> * In practice, much like the story we're seeing play out with systemd, |
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> while xorg will remain around for some time and existing features will |
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> probably continue to work in general as they always have, just as the |
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> various alternative init systems are, it's likely many of the newer |
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> features will only function as designed and/or will only be "supported" |
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> on wayland. And, as we're seeing with gnome and systemd already, I |
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> predict they'll be dropping support for anything but wayland/weston |
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> sooner rather than later, basically leaving the non-linux platforms and |
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> those who aren't ready to make that change out in the cold, at least as |
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> far as gnome goes. Just as we're seeing with systemd, distros such as |
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> gentoo who want to continue to support gnome with xorg will be able to do |
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> so for a couple releases, but at some point upstream gnome's code base |
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> will have diverged significantly enough that it'll force distros into |
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> only supporting wayland/weston for their gnome users, as well. |
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The between the lines here is that you have certain people for whom |
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backwards compatibility is an afterthought, stability is ‘not fun’, |
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and competition of different approaches is to be squelched by peer |
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pressure. All these points are really, to me, arguments for getting |
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away from Gnome as soon as one can (which I have already done, and |
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also switched to eudev). |