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This week in KDE: real fake session restore
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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2024
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I wonder if you took all the development time that went into the fake way, and put it into the real way, would the real way be finished by now?
The "real" way needs the corresponding Wayland protocol in order to work. The protocol is under development/review, but involves a lot more moving parts that requires coordination and approval from multiple people. This "fake" way was able to be implemented faster and by fewer people as a stop-gap measure
Sounds efficient…
When you want a standard to take hold you gotta do it the hard way. You can't just cowboy it like you can with the fake version. (Not meaning to disparage the fake version, mind you.)
Ah, Schrödinger's desktop development.
Refuse to implement something until there's a robust open standard to use it with, without hacky workarounds, a la Gnome? Get shat on for not implementing a feature immediately.
Implement something quickly, but in a hacky roundabout way, hoping a standard comes soon and you can phase out your sub-optimal solution, a la KDE? Get shat on for wasting time on a solution that will be short-lived.
Well, nothing is as permanent as a temporary solution