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At this rate is it possible that x.org will just absorb the benefits of wayland while having graphical issues and less safety?

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I don't think so, the X.org server would likely have to be rewritten entirely to get some of the improvements of Wayland. And at that point you might as well use Wayland. People have written alternate X servers before but I've never seen one that was totally feature compatible with X.org.

I am suggesting that wayland may not reach critical mass because of backporting these features, and wayland lacking a lot of functionality would prevent me from using it, until its reach partiality or enough functionality. I had mostly a great time with it on GNOME and a tablet interface, but I missed widgets and some functionalities.

In terms of developer velocity I think it has already reached critical mass. I can't comment on any particular missing features in GNOME, to me it is probably more likely that a GNOME contributor is working on getting those features ported over to Wayland than somebody working on backporting things to X.

That's great, I'll switch when its not a skeletonized version of the functionality I use now, I hope there is an easy way to import global hotkeys in my current programs, and have widgets or GUI support. I tried using ctrl and up as a hotkey in the compositor for instance and it never worked in dbus when I tried last week.

I just mentioned GNOME because I actually really dislike it, and was forced to use it for good tablet support with wayland, they broke those plugins I used.

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