Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Wayland and X-Window

[Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@chemoelectric.org>]

Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> skribis:
> * In practice, much like the story we're seeing play out with systemd, 
> while xorg will remain around for some time and existing features will 
> probably continue to work in general as they always have, just as the 
> various alternative init systems are, it's likely many of the newer 
> features will only function as designed and/or will only be "supported" 
> on wayland.  And, as we're seeing with gnome and systemd already, I 
> predict they'll be dropping support for anything but wayland/weston 
> sooner rather than later, basically leaving the non-linux platforms and 
> those who aren't ready to make that change out in the cold, at least as 
> far as gnome goes.  Just as we're seeing with systemd, distros such as 
> gentoo who want to continue to support gnome with xorg will be able to do 
> so for a couple releases, but at some point upstream gnome's code base 
> will have diverged significantly enough that it'll force distros into 
> only supporting wayland/weston for their gnome users, as well.

The between the lines here is that you have certain people for whom
backwards compatibility is an afterthought, stability is ‘not fun’,
and competition of different approaches is to be squelched by peer
pressure. All these points are really, to me, arguments for getting
away from Gnome as soon as one can (which I have already done, and
also switched to eudev).