On: A Testament to X11 Backwards Compatibility

[toyg]

What are you going to run on it? 99% of userland programs expect compatibility with some historical version of X11. Are you going to rewrite GNOME and KDE and everything else?

[ahomescu1 → toyg]

Many userland applications don't use X libraries directly, but use a toolkit like Qt and GTK. Both projects are working on Wayland support [1, 2], bypassing X completely.

1 - http://wayland.freedesktop.org/qt5.html

2 - http://wayland.freedesktop.org/gtk.html

[krakensden → ahomescu1]

It's worth noting that GTK+'s abstraction over X11 is fairly leaky in places- hence the always shaky state of its ports to Win & Mac.

Qt has less trouble in this regard.