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The core wayland does not even implement the idea of a window, to show how far the differences go.

Based on experiences of an acquaintance writing from scratch support for wayland for an UI framework that shares absolutely zero code with any of the major ones, the differences in even basic things like how to implement drop-down menu are staggering.

Funnily enough, said acquaintances needs would have been fully covered by slightly more capable XRender and a way to synchronize to VSync that does not depend on GLX.




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