It might be that they are not interested on "Market share". Or they are but not enough to justify the work. I'm sure they would be glad to accept a pull request.
They need to focus on these kinds of problems, not on adding new features, otherwise I would have stayed.
Yes, wayland is the future, is cool, is better and everything.
And yet, I don't really care about it. I'll stay on Xorg as long as XFCE stays on Xorg. I'll move to wayland as soon as XFCE moves to wayland.
And I know that the Xfce people already have plans for wayland support.
I am also happy they decided to release more often, allthough once a year turned out to be too short. Supporting applications on Wayland is already a great step. How they decide to build their Wayland compositor is not fully clear, I think it is wise they take the time for that, to build something that they can support and maintain for years to come with a small team of people.
It could be like that whole kerning-thing which is super-mega important to some people, while the rest of the world don’t even notice?
(It is possible that I have never experienced a truly beautiful desktop, but my eyes are no longer particularly precise enough to operate at modern pixel densities)
But for that you need a functional UI scaling system provided by the Waylands rework.
Why wouldn't they complain for something that affects them? If you don't have any issues, that's great for you, but that doesn't help those who do in any way, so why do you downplay their issues?
Details if anyone wants it: The game itself may only be running on one monitor, but it doesn't matter, if I have multi monitors active it'll hitch. You can apparently mitigate this somewhat by making sure all your monitors are running the exact same frame rate, but two of my monitors run 59.95Hz while the third runs 59.92Hz, that's not close enough, and I can't seem to get them to something common like 59.00 Hz. I tried disabling two monitors while playing on the third, and it's better, but still far from perfect.
I tried a very recent KDE on Wayland and while gaming felt smooth, its multi-monitor support is very buggy right now -- actually the whole DE felt really buggy -- so that's out.
I really wish gamescope could be run on top of Xorg and the game could 'just' run in that...
Are there concrete plans to migrate to wayland?
EDIT: of course you're getting downvoted because you dared utter the W-word. Come on people, this is not Reddit.
Yes, of course. Two minutes of searching would have led you here: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap Come on, sph, this is not Reddit.
> of course you're getting downvoted because you dared utter the W-word. Come on people, this is not Reddit.
I downvoted them because I think it's rude to complain about how others choose to spend their time contributing to open source projects.
That page says: "For Xfce 4.18, the plan is to ensure our applications are working acceptably on Wayland"
Since this is the 4.18 release and Wayland is not mentioned in the blog post, it's reasonable to ask if that plan is still in place. (I do agree it's up to XFCE maintainers and contributors to set the pace, if any, for Wayland support).
Do you think it is more likely that that user found the wiki page, performed the same analysis as you, then came back here to ask their question without mentioning any of the research they did; or they just turded out the first question they could think of and did zero research trying to answer it for themselves?