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  • Re: Wayland and Tcl/Tk

    From Kevin Walzer@kw@codebykevin.com to comp.lang.tcl on Mon Jan 19 16:32:53 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    On 1/16/26 9:45 AM, Olivier wrote:
    I guess that the Tcl Core Team has not enough ressources to port Tcl/Tk to Wayland,
    but as I see "Wayland" being ported on some Linux distribution, I was wondering
    if it has a chance to be ported on the whole Linux family ?

    Someone will have to step up and take on the work to do so. To date, no
    one has. My guess is that the Tcl/Tk core team believes X11 despite its
    age and imperfections still works well enough, XWayland provides a
    bridge, and there is no clear-cut case to abandon X for Wayland.

    Based on what I have seen, Tk would lose a great deal with a native
    Wayland port - no clipboard support, no system tray support, just to
    name a couple. Why *should* Tk move away from X? Arguments that "Wayland
    is the future" are not very compelling.


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