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@wizzwizz4<\/a> @ashguy<\/a> The primary goal of any fork should be serving existing users, and new folks who want to adopt existing stable reliable things, indefinitely into the future.<\/p>

Not chasing whatever the lastest new thing is.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-13:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/117071599626043901","object":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/117071599626043901","objectType":"note","content":"

@wizzwizz4<\/a> @ashguy<\/a> The primary goal of any fork should be serving existing users, and new folks who want to adopt existing stable reliable things, indefinitely into the future.<\/p>

Not chasing whatever the lastest new thing is.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/13015620","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/117071589292070824","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias\/117071589292070824"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/users\/wizzwizz4"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-10:objectType=thread:nonce=eb27f825ec318670","notice_info":{"local_id":"13015620","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-08-10T14:07:26+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/13015620"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias","displayName":"Rich Felker","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/40873-original-tmp20221202140938.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/40873-96-20221207231635.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/40873-48-20221207231635.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/40873-24-20221207231635.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"40873"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/40873-96-20221207231635.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"C librarian, purveyor of the language's eldritch horrors. Poppin' shells \ud83e\uddaa","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"dalias","displayName":"Rich Felker","note":"C librarian, purveyor of the language's eldritch horrors. Poppin' shells \ud83e\uddaa"}},"content":"

@wizzwizz4<\/a> @ashguy<\/a> I don't see any reason to implement a Wayland compositor at all. It's outside the scope of the project. You can already use X11 window managers with Wayland if you want, in the same way wayback is doing.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-13:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/117071589292070824","object":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias\/statuses\/117071589292070824","objectType":"note","content":"

@wizzwizz4<\/a> @ashguy<\/a> I don't see any reason to implement a Wayland compositor at all. It's outside the scope of the project. You can already use X11 window managers with Wayland if you want, in the same way wayback is doing.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias\/117071589292070824","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/users\/wizzwizz4\/statuses\/117071576509296662","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/13015599"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/users\/wizzwizz4"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-10:objectType=thread:nonce=eb27f825ec318670","notice_info":{"local_id":"13015600","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-08-10T14:04:49+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@dalias\/117071589292070824"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/users\/wizzwizz4","displayName":"wizzwizz4","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8466-original-tmp20220903125304.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8466-96-20220914125615.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8466-48-20220914125615.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8466-24-20220914125615.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"8466"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8466-96-20220914125615.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I like tools. Tools exist to serve a purpose; good tools serve many purposes. The purposes are the important part \u2013 but I'm no good at solving problems. I hope my tools will be enough.Testimonials from satisfied costumers: \u2022 "this pun is so fucking bad and i hate you for it" \u2014 @mikoIf I'm doing wrong, please tell me. Either I don't know (and you've saved everyone a lot of grief), or I do know (and I should face consequences).","url":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/@wizzwizz4","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"wizzwizz4","displayName":"wizzwizz4","note":"I like tools. Tools exist to serve a purpose; good tools serve many purposes. The purposes are the important part \u2013 but I'm no good at solving problems. I hope my tools will be enough.Testimonials from satisfied costumers: \u2022 "this pun is so fucking bad and i hate you for it" \u2014 @mikoIf I'm doing wrong, please tell me. Either I don't know (and you've saved everyone a lot of grief), or I do know (and I should face consequences)."}},"content":"

@ashguy<\/a> @dalias<\/a> Okay, xfwl4's the only codebase whose recent commits look vaguely nonsensical, and https:\/\/www.spurint.org\/journal\/2026\/07\/llms-and-xfwl4<\/a> only mentions xfwl4, so I'm 60% confident the damage is limited to there\u00a0\u2013 at least for now.<\/p>

I'm not sure xfwl4 can be salvaged to begin with. It's written in Rust, which (as much as I like Rust) is more and more a warning sign of bad things, like Enterprise Java used to be.<\/p>

It might make more sense to implement a Wayland compositor in a different (higher-level?) language.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-13:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/users\/wizzwizz4\/statuses\/117071576509296662","object":{"id":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/users\/wizzwizz4\/statuses\/117071576509296662","objectType":"note","content":"

@ashguy<\/a> @dalias<\/a> Okay, xfwl4's the only codebase whose recent commits look vaguely nonsensical, and https:\/\/www.spurint.org\/journal\/2026\/07\/llms-and-xfwl4<\/a> only mentions xfwl4, so I'm 60% confident the damage is limited to there\u00a0\u2013 at least for now.<\/p>

I'm not sure xfwl4 can be salvaged to begin with. It's written in Rust, which (as much as I like Rust) is more and more a warning sign of bad things, like Enterprise Java used to be.<\/p>

It might make more sense to implement a Wayland compositor in a different (higher-level?) language.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/13015599","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/users\/wizzwizz4\/statuses\/117071510492315763","url":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/@wizzwizz4\/117071510492315763"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-10:objectType=thread:nonce=eb27f825ec318670","notice_info":{"local_id":"13015599","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-08-10T14:04:49+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/13015599"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/users\/wizzwizz4","displayName":"wizzwizz4","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8466-original-tmp20220903125304.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8466-96-20220914125615.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8466-48-20220914125615.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8466-24-20220914125615.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"8466"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/8466-96-20220914125615.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I like tools. Tools exist to serve a purpose; good tools serve many purposes. The purposes are the important part \u2013 but I'm no good at solving problems. I hope my tools will be enough.Testimonials from satisfied costumers: \u2022 "this pun is so fucking bad and i hate you for it" \u2014 @mikoIf I'm doing wrong, please tell me. Either I don't know (and you've saved everyone a lot of grief), or I do know (and I should face consequences).","url":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/@wizzwizz4","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"wizzwizz4","displayName":"wizzwizz4","note":"I like tools. Tools exist to serve a purpose; good tools serve many purposes. The purposes are the important part \u2013 but I'm no good at solving problems. I hope my tools will be enough.Testimonials from satisfied costumers: \u2022 "this pun is so fucking bad and i hate you for it" \u2014 @mikoIf I'm doing wrong, please tell me. Either I don't know (and you've saved everyone a lot of grief), or I do know (and I should face consequences)."}},"content":"

@ashguy<\/a> @dalias<\/a> XFCE's Wayland support is a new feature, though, still in development. (I was under the impression that XFCE already supported Wayland natively, but apparently not.)<\/p>

We really need better tooling for this. Binary search through the histories of multiple repos via the GitLab web UI is not my idea of a good time.<\/p>

Edit: Wikipedia's out of date. https:\/\/wiki.xfce.org\/releng\/wayland_roadmap<\/a> has a lot of yesses for 4.21, last modified: 2026\/01\/30 10:13. Hopefully that's early enough.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-13:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/users\/wizzwizz4\/statuses\/117071510492315763","object":{"id":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/users\/wizzwizz4\/statuses\/117071510492315763","objectType":"note","content":"

@ashguy<\/a> @dalias<\/a> XFCE's Wayland support is a new feature, though, still in development. (I was under the impression that XFCE already supported Wayland natively, but apparently not.)<\/p>

We really need better tooling for this. Binary search through the histories of multiple repos via the GitLab web UI is not my idea of a good time.<\/p>

Edit: Wikipedia's out of date. https:\/\/wiki.xfce.org\/releng\/wayland_roadmap<\/a> has a lot of yesses for 4.21, last modified: 2026\/01\/30 10:13. Hopefully that's early enough.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/@wizzwizz4\/117071510492315763","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/dalias"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-10:objectType=thread:nonce=eb27f825ec318670","notice_info":{"local_id":"13015598","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-08-10T14:04:49+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/@wizzwizz4\/117071510492315763"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6612095","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}