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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I feel like it doesn't really matter either way, it adds a little complexity for the people maintaining qt and gtk and things like that, but most actual application developers aren't interacting directly with the display server so it doesn't make much difference for them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's probably the biggest deal for games running in xwayland

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Care to elaborate? What have games to do with window decorations?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Native games need to add client side decorations to be usable on Wayland Gnome. Currently most games just run in XWayland.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Exactly, native games are dead anyway? :P