@kyle_pegasus@scalie.club @soc@chaos.social @zzt@mas.to @rootwyrm@weird.autos The topic of "gnomification" as one might put it, is also interesting to hear irt this, since one of the major consumers and developers of Smithay is Cosmic DE... which is explicitly being developed as a more featureful alternative to gnome. They even got in a relatively public spat where gnome devs basically said they dont think Cosmic devs could pull of making an accessible desktop.

Not to mention Cinnamon, a fork of Gnome before they made everything disturbingly touch-centric irt UI, is also moving to Wayland.

The Gnome alternatives seen quite at home at the alleged Gnome-Homogenization-Ray we're considering Wayland to be for the purposes of our conversation here...