wrapped up my talk about #wayback at @XOrgDevConf about an hour ago.

i think i’ve accomplished my goal with it: to spark a conversation on how to get the missing pieces filled in. in the Q&A a few interesting paths were identified to investigate, hopefully the hallway conversations will be similarly insightful.

my dream is to be able to come back next year and say that legacy X has been fully superseded by wayback. i feel like we are close to solving the puzzle.

which is good because if i never have to fix another DDX module ever again, that would be very alright with me

speaking of those DDX modules, one last problem to figure out is how to keep these very old 2D-only chips working.

one of the last talks today is possibly about this, so i will be paying close attention to it!

@ariadne @XOrgDevConf hahahaha

color management has a long way to go last i checked in
@wyatt @XOrgDevConf color management is probably the most challenging, but i think we have a path to solving multimonitor now. and actually that path may allow us to solve color management too.
@ariadne @XOrgDevConf ideally it solves it better than X does by allowing for per-monitor three dimensional lookup tables (as opposed to the simple gamma ramps supported in hardware in X… although a compositor can supply this in X).

@ariadne @XOrgDevConf That will have to wait for Qubes OS R4.4 at least, unless you can convince Marek Marczykowski-Górecki to switch to Wayland in the middle of a stable release.

I tried making Wayland work with the Qubes OS GUI protocol and it ended miserably. I could never get window resizing to work.

@ariadne @XOrgDevConf is there a recording? Thats an interesting topic, and would be great to be able watch it online.