[ale] Wayland: WHEN it works, it works BETTER

[mike at trausch.us (Michael B. Trausch)]

While I was writing my last message, I noticed something: Thunderbird
was working way better than it does normally.  Yesterday, I switched my
desktop to using the Wayland stack, to give it a whirl.

Even running X applications is a little bit better. When I type a
message in Thunderbird, frequently parts of the message text will
disappear.  Getting it back is simple enough, just press CTRL+A on the
keyboard, but then I've lost the location of the caret (and I'm never at
the beginning or the end of the text, no I'm not).

This graphical abomination doesn't happen on Wayland.  (My quick guess
is because Wayland doesn't require Thunderbird to keep track of what's
been painted anymore.)

That said... wayland isn't quite there yet. I just crashed it a few
minutes ago by hitting the cancel button on a dialog window.  Oops.

Anyone else given Wayland a try and have any interesting observations?

(Anyone gotten E19 working on Wayland? It looks to me like it's about
the neatest reboot of CDE I've ever seen.)

    ? Mike