I wonder how they handle color management, since apparently Wayland still doesn't support it (and the Wayland devs are clueless about it).<p>See the discussion here: <a href="https://discuss.pixls.us/t/wayland-color-management/10804" rel="nofollow">https://discuss.pixls.us/t/wayland-color-management/10804</a>
I don't know much about the whole space, but from what I've read so far about Wayland, it starts to feel a lot like yet another "perpetual next-gen" tech, such as IPv6, fuel cells, the Semantic Web or XHTML2 (before that one was officially declared dead at least).<p>Like, according to the linked article, the standard is out there since <i>2008</i> - so the adoption period is already 14 years! And people are still haggling about basic stuff like color management, mouse cursors and window decorations?<p>What exactly is the envisioned timeframe for Wayland to replace X11 as the dominant windowing system?<p>If the standard has been promoted as the obvious next step for linux desktop environments for <i>14 years</i> but still hasn't actually caught on, are we sure it really is the right direction to go?
Been great to see apps slowly getting more native Wayland support.<p>I'm looking forward to Java/Swing hopefully gaining support too via Project Wakefield.
> <i>Gnome-shell has decided not to support server side decorations</i><p>I still can’t understand this at all. It’s such obvious and complete folly. And it’s not an isolated decision; there are quite a few related places where it is very apparent that GNOME has co-opted GTK and been actively sabotaging it for anyone that’s not GNOME, and it’s been heavily poisoning the Linux desktop space.<p>(Note that I’m <i>not</i> railing against client-side decorations, though the current free-for-all with no way of signalling even the simplest of conventions like the expected location of window controls (even apart from their appearance) is quite insane; I’m complaining about not supporting server-side decorations, since they are fundamental to some window managers (e.g. Sway) and completely sensible for many apps. The existence of “fallback client-side decorations” and the loose requirement that every app implement this thing that it often has no need of and <i>can’t</i> do as well as the window manager is at least moderately absurd.)
I wonder if Wayland will achieve escape velocity before it gets replaced with some completely new paradigm that's clearly better than everything that came before.<p>python3 seems to have finally pulled through via deprecation.<p>I'm pretty convinced at this point IPv6 is going to be de facto replaced with SNI routing. You pretty much have to use TLS anyway.<p>Platform-level software updates are fascinating.
The question is what is native support for Wayland? Wayland Compositors are so fragmented how could they possibly support the multitude of environments?
Back in the day Blender was basically a pure OpenGL program with all the controls/widgets implemented directly. I guess that's not the case any more. Does it use any kind of widget library now?