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0 pointscycloptic5y ago0 comments

Sure but that's not any different if your application depended on some other GNOME or KDE specific API. If KDE decides an API is KDE only and GNOME doesn't want to make their own implementation then there's not much that you could ever do about that. The point with using a toolkit is that it's an abstraction layer that handles the differences between window systems and implementations for you. It would be better if you mentioned the specific reason why your app is breaking because that would likely be a bug in the toolkit.

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jude-5y ago· 2 in thread

Except now the whole X server is part of a GNOME-specific or KDE-specific API.

The bug is "Wayland makes it so programs don't reliably run anymore because they are no longer guaranteed to work with all window managers and desktop environments." It's an architectural flaw.

cyclopticOP5y ago

Not really, shared functionality there is in the core wayland protocol and in the standard set of wayland extensions, or in some other standard dbus interface. (generic ones usually go in the org.freedesktop namespace) If you depend on GNOME-specific or KDE-specific APIs then yes, you would have to deal with those being unsupported outside. Not much has changed there.

jude-5y ago

sigh In one ear, out the other.

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