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345 points splitbrain | 3 comments | 14 Oct 24 13:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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OsrsNeedsf2P ◴[14 Oct 24 14:08 UTC] No.41837682[source]▶
I love how simple this is- Barely 100 lines or C++ (ignoring comments). That's one thing that makes me prefer X11 over Wayland.
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ajross ◴[14 Oct 24 14:32 UTC] No.41837906[source]▶
Yeah. I mean, not to deny the decades of arguments over its warts, but it's kind of amazing to me the extent to which X11 has emerged as, well, the simplest/best and most hackable desktop graphics environment available. You want to play a trick, it's right there. The ICCCM got a ton of hate back in the early 90's, but... no one else has an equivalent and people still innovate in the WM space even today.
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themerone ◴[14 Oct 24 15:08 UTC] No.41838252[source]▶
X11 is the opposite of simple and hackable. What you are thinking of as "hackable" is actually the result of it having a ton of legacy features that enable users to do neat tricks.

Wayland breaks a lot of these tools because it is so much simpler than X.

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1. vidarh ◴[14 Oct 24 15:28 UTC] No.41838417[source]▶
By window manager started out as ~50 lines of Ruby copying an equivalent amount of C.

You can say many things about Wayland, but it's "simple" from a point of view I for one really do not care about. Wayland may be "simple" in some respects, but it makes most of the things I care about doing unnecessarily complex.

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2. bee_rider ◴[14 Oct 24 15:39 UTC] No.41838544[source]▶
Walyand probably would have been better if wlroots had been developed as a (whatever this means) first-party “built-in” library.
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3. vidarh ◴[15 Oct 24 06:43 UTC] No.41845642[source]▶
Even then, "tinywl" which aims to be a "minimum viable product" Wayland compositor based on wlroots is almost 1k lines:

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/tree/master/tinywl