[wooptoo]

Am I the only one who's not buying into the Wayland hype? I just want X11 support not to fall into disrepair, as I see nothing wrong with it.

[bee_rider]

I don’t see much Wayland hype. It’s boring plumbing for most people, isn’t it? Most of us are just going along with whatever the volunteer plumbing community decided to put together.

[kelnos]

(xfwl4 author here.)

I'm also not a big fan of Wayland, to be honest. But that's the way the winds are blowing. X11 has its problems, but even if they are fixable, no one seems to want to work on Xorg anymore. I'm certainly not prepared to maintain it and push it forward. Are you?

Depending on Xorg today is more or less ok, but I do expect distros will stop shipping it eventually.

[pantalaimon]

> I just want X11 support not to fall into disrepair

Are you also willing to maintain it?

[superkuh]

Are you willing to write accessibility support for the new xfce only wayland compositor? How will you get every other wayland compositor to support your non-'wayland core' accessibility extension?

People like to frame things like the waylands are some sort of default and nothing is being lost and no one is being excluded.

[rpcope1]

Honestly at this point, I would be willing to pay $10-20 a month just for someone to maintain Xorg and xfree86. I really doubt I am the only one.

[treve]

Some cognitive dissonance going on here. The vast majority of current Linux Desktop users are on Wayland, and X11 is phased out across the board. Calling it hype is absurd.

[RunSet]

> Some cognitive dissonance going on here.

The cognitive dissonance I perceive goes like "No one is being paid to work on X11, therefore I should volunteer to work on Wayland."

[account42]

So I guess Windows is actually the future then by your argument because that's used by even more users.

[wooptoo]

Sure, but do you have any facts to backup that assertion?

[badpenny]

Yes, you are the only one in the entire world who hasn't fallen for it. Well done.