• 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Anyone know where the sources for this are? I can’t find many references to Wayland in the main Cinnamon repo, at least using GitHub’s search.

    I wanted to check if they use wlroots for this or are writing yet another compositor from scratch.

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      1 year ago

      yet another compositor from scratch

      it’s a good thing to have multiple implementations of compositors. that avoids bad practices or making compositor specific programs that wouldn’t work with other compositors.

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      I don’t think there are many “compositors from scratch” are there? GNOME and KDE both have their own, Cinnamon uses a GNOME fork, and almost everything else I can think of is wlroots based. The only other one I can think of which isn’t is Mir, which has been around almost as long as Wayland has.