After more than forty years, everyone knows that it’s time to retire the X Window System – X11 for short – on account of it being old and decrepit. Or at least that’s what t…
Let me be clear, I am not here to defend the Wayland standards process. The GNOME guys in particular are a nightmare and heavily resist everything they do not themselves need. If what you want to complain about are some of the people “in Wayland”, I am on your side.
That said, xdg-desktop-portal and DBUS are part of the Wayland world as they are part of then freedesktop.org standard. Red Hat has a vision for the Linux platform. This is it.
But this is like saying the web is not just HTML anymore because it also requires JavaScript. Everybody is on board with dbus. It is how you do IPC to sandboxed Flatpak apps too…
Let me be clear, I am not here to defend the Wayland standards process. The GNOME guys in particular are a nightmare and heavily resist everything they do not themselves need. If what you want to complain about are some of the people “in Wayland”, I am on your side.
That said, xdg-desktop-portal and DBUS are part of the Wayland world as they are part of then freedesktop.org standard. Red Hat has a vision for the Linux platform. This is it.
But this is like saying the web is not just HTML anymore because it also requires JavaScript. Everybody is on board with dbus. It is how you do IPC to sandboxed Flatpak apps too…