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> (up to the GNOME 1 days when it was still easy to run gnome-panel on top of WM)

One more thing to mourn the loss of with Wayland i guess...

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Why was this downvoted? Breaking backwards compatibility with every existing WM is legitimately a downside to Wayland.

Naysay the "future", get the downvote stick...

What would it take to port to wayland?

Pretty much a complete rewrite. Wayland is nothing like X11.

I have taken to likening Wayland to svgalib.

The basic task of Wayland is to facilitate that a program (most commonly a DE compositor/WM) can draw on the screen using the GPU without the programmer having to write OpenGL code.

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