Re: Collaboration on standard Wayland protocol extensions

[Daniel Stone <daniel fooishbar org>]

Hi,

On 29 March 2016 at 13:11, Drew DeVault <sir cmpwn com> wrote:
> > or just have the compositor "work" without needing scripts and users to have to
> > learn how to write them. :)
>
> Never gonna happen, man. There's no way you can foresee and code for
> everyone's needs. I'm catching on to this point you're heading towards,
> though: e doesn't intend to suit everyone's needs.

If a compositor implementation can never be sufficient to express
peoples' needs, how could an arbitrary protocol be better? Same
complexity problem.

(And, as far as the 'but what if a compositor implementation isn't
good' argument goes - don't use bad compositors.)

Cheers,
Daniel