I think what they meant is that there are people that think: “Wayland is too fragmented, there should be 1 ‘Wayland Compositor’ and the rest should be window managers”
Nope, I meant that the wayland compositors are inflexible monoliths that are so tightly integrated into a DE that they can’t be replaced. Xorg might be bloated, but it follows the UNIX philosophy closely enough that each part of the stack above xorg can be trivially replaced.
Nothing in the protocol prevents you from splitting the server from the window manager, just everyone implementing the wayland server protocol didn’t see any benefit in splitting it out.
I think what they meant is that there are people that think: “Wayland is too fragmented, there should be 1 ‘Wayland Compositor’ and the rest should be window managers”
Nope, I meant that the wayland compositors are inflexible monoliths that are so tightly integrated into a DE that they can’t be replaced. Xorg might be bloated, but it follows the UNIX philosophy closely enough that each part of the stack above xorg can be trivially replaced.
I guess my interpretation was too charitable.
Nothing in the protocol prevents you from splitting the server from the window manager, just everyone implementing the wayland server protocol didn’t see any benefit in splitting it out.
Thanks I didn’t know that. Arcan seems to have kept WM’s separate.
Thanks I didn’t know that. Arcan seems to have kept WM’s separate.