I still have no idea what this project is trying to do exactly.
I always got decent multitouch on linux (when the touchpad is even recognized, but that's another problem).
I always got decent multitouch on linux (when the touchpad is even recognized, but that's another problem).
Raise funds, basically.
Getting too specific about their development plans would interfere with that. People spend money based on emotion and shiny things. Yes, even Linux users.
As evidenced by the fact that they've basically just resorted to doing tons of retrofit to bring benefits that already exist in Wayland to a legacy, deprecated, aging stack. (literally every single change listed). Also, it's no longer just about improving the touchpad (since libinput is already pushing the envelope there), and instead ... X11 Gestures? Okay? (Good luck to those brave enough to install a patched X11 from a PPA!)
I feel sorry for the people who thought there was enough substance to donate. How this project progresses with increasingly less clarity and continues to be celebrated here deeply confuses me.
The reasons why we chose the current path were explained in detail in the blog posts.
Touchpad gestures was the most popular feature to implement. In order to do that we needed a good reason why all the other project maintainers would want to spend time discussing a feature with us. Wayland is the future, yes, but currently a lot of users are still on X which makes our argument much less convincing. Now we can say that touchpad gestures will soon be available everywhere and get their attention this way.
I agree that X is legacy platform. Unfortunately it may still be used for quite some time. Core functionality such as screenshots and input record/replay is not universally available on Wayland. So X will still be used for significant amount of time.
Please tell me what else I could explain to increase the transparency of the project and I'll try my best to do so. Thanks!
This is exactly my case. For me it's the difference between earning money or not working: I do some screen sharing with my customers every day. Wayland is not an option for me yet.
At this moment I'm not really sure if I would go the same path had I knew all the information I know now. Having said that, we've only spent around a single man-month of effort working on this. In the grand scheme of things this detour is tiny.