smithay instead of wlroots?

[soloturn]

(sorry for creating an issue, it would be a discussion entry more appropriately)

helping to package COSMIC desktop envirnoment for arch linux, i stumbled via its wayland library smithay, remote desktop via wprs, i.e. "tmux for windows" (remote GUI is actually my personal problem space), its older inspiration, xpra, a blog post questioning if wayland breaks everything, probonopds wayland x11 compatibility protocols to your presentation and implementation of ext_toplevel_icon_v1 to set window icons, and your presentation . it really got implemented in smithay. very cool :)

but as you are in tradition of revolutionaries tim berners lee, and nextstep, i was wondering why you base your work on dusty wlroots, and not on rusty smithay?

an unrelated remartk ... for IAM ... there is rusty kanidm.

[phkaeser]

Thanks for sharing the pointers and the suggestion! Smithay looks interesting & promising, and if I were to (re)start all over and in Rust, that would be a a likely dependency.

How come I have not been using it already? In short:

• I had started wlmaker in mid 2022; and it appears Smithay hadn't been released yet back then.
• For various reasons, I opted to write wlmaker in C; and smithay in Rust would add extra challenges.

It's great to see there's a strong & growing library base for Rust.
I'd love to make use of it; if just time permitted me more hacking time :)