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This is 100% true, but the efforts are negligible and not even worth consideration.
^is an exponentiation operator in C and who got kicked off Xorg for being a moron who did functionally nothing of any importance while carelessly breaking things like the ABI. Enormous quantity but zero quality to speak of. It will go nowhere and only has any crumb of relevance because of the maintainer's virtue signaling.As GNOME and KDE drop X11 and DEs like Cinnamon adopt Wayland, more and more actively maintained applications will stop giving a shit about X11. Even if they don't explicitly not support it, none of the developers will be using it, and most of the userbase won't either; thus, applications' support for X11 will just rot away if it isn't outright deprecated. Obviously X11 will always have a base of legacy applications, but you're going to be seriously hard-pressed even two years from now to find someone who would use X11 over Wayland – except for specific and severely outdated hardware, conspiracy nutjobs, and the rare case where XWayland doesn't properly support a legacy application.
Whenever I see a new project trying to modernize Xorg, my first question is whether it's actually about the code or just another protest/spite project. We’ve already seen how XLibre is less about display servers and more about a weird crossover of technical incompetence and fringe politics (championed by people like Lunduke). Is Phoenix actually a serious technical effort, or is it just the latest attempt to build a sanctuary for people who were kicked out of the Wayland and Xorg dev circles?
Sadly xrdp comes to mind. The builtin-in rdp server of Gnome is not on par yet and behaves differently.
Xrdp server prompts for the login of an existing user while Gnome new implementation has a kind of additional user/password which all users need to know. I did not find an option to disable it.
What is neat about the new implementation is, that you can login to a running sessiom remotely without being logged out at the local machine. This feels more like desktop sharing. Awesome, and in this case, having a seperate user/password makes sense.
I dunno, I thought the description of the efforts and ambitions here sounded really promising. It's not even meant to be fully X11 compatible.
I'm excited to hear more down the line. If it turns out to be nothing, fine, but I'm excited for the possibilities this could bring.