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Comment by cycloptic

There's no political process. In GNOME if you want to do strange things with moving and reparenting windows from other processes then you write a GNOME extension. Same with KDE and kwin scripts. No touching of Wayland necessary. Fundamentally it doesn't seem that different from writing Arcan WMs. If all that's not enough then you write a new Wayland compositor with the policy you want, maybe using wlroots to save time. Overall that really hasn't changed much from writing X WMs, I don't get what the concern here is. At worst, it is a change that can be adapted to just like those changes you describe in DWM.

>you are much more locked down

Is this not what a policy is? The window manager locking down clients and enforcing that they can only do certain things? I'm aware that Arcan got wayland support recently and that actually gives me more hope that we're not headed towards an apocalypse of protocol incompatibilities.

parent cycloptic 6 years ago

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