Lead developer sees no Compiz future under Wayland

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 8, 2013 4:42 PM EDT
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Sam Spilsbury, lead developer of the Compiz window manager, has written a blog post declaring that he does not see much of a future in porting the project to the Wayland architecture. The developer says he is disillusioned with what he calls fragmentation in the open source community, referring to the many compositing engines available under the current X11 implementation. He thinks that porting Compiz to Wayland would be too much work with only little gain for end users.

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And here we have an *actual* case of *Linux fragmentation* BernardSwiss 9 982 Jan 11, 2013 12:59 AM

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