[gldrk]

If you are not going to implement X11 drawing ops and XRender (which I, and many others, still use heavily), what's even the point? Any 'modern' program that only does client-side rendering already supports Wayland. AFAIK GTK 3 doesn't even support DRI on X11 unless you somehow trick it into using the abandoned OpenGL Cairo backend, but that's not modern enough apparently.

[esjeon]

We get the window management APIs back perhaps, unlike the eternally broken Wayland ecosystem.

[drpixie]

Where do they say they're omitting drawing and xrender?

[gldrk]

It talks about trimming 'legacy' features and specifically says they are omitting 'font-related' operations. That obviously means no useful core X11 application will work (unless you count xlogo and xeyes). Whether the XRender glyph cache mechanism is included is unclear. It also says only DRI is *currently* supported, but maybe that's incidental?

[nixosbestos]

If I could give a comment HN Gold, it would be this comment. 3 times.