To be clear, you're saying that implementation in the applications/toolkits ecosystem is the barrier to a better trackpad experience on Linux and that by unifying the feature set of both X and Wayland, this will encourage that implementation among the developers of the applications/toolkits?
If that's correct, that is one angle I had not considered before. It's also somewhat unfortunate that it was not spelled out more clearly in Bill's post, but hindsight is 20-20 of course.
> To be clear, you're saying that implementation in the applications/toolkits ecosystem is the barrier to a better trackpad experience on Linux and that by unifying the feature set of both X and Wayland, this will encourage that implementation among the developers of the applications/toolkits?
Yes, exactly. AFAIK only Gtk right now supports any kind of touchpad gestures on Linux. Also, most of the users are still on Xorg and it's right now unknown when Wayland will be the default universally. So we would be in a weak position to demand maintainers attention, as there's little immediate benefit.
To be clear, you're saying that implementation in the applications/toolkits ecosystem is the barrier to a better trackpad experience on Linux and that by unifying the feature set of both X and Wayland, this will encourage that implementation among the developers of the applications/toolkits?
If that's correct, that is one angle I had not considered before. It's also somewhat unfortunate that it was not spelled out more clearly in Bill's post, but hindsight is 20-20 of course.