Wayland protocol's shell implementation criticized as failed design with ironic X11 dependency

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wayland xdg shell xdg x11 wl shell

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Wayland's wl_shell was quickly deprecated and replaced with xdg_shell (which ironically has 'X' standing for X11), representing a design failure.

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/g/108992438 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 84 replies Wayland's wl_shell was quickly deprecated and replaced with xdg_shell (which ironically has 'X' standing for X11), representing a design failure.