It's not obvious, but adding touchpad gesture support to X will benefit you too even if you're not using X.
This will make our work of convincing the maintainers of other open source projects much easier. X and Wayland cover essentially al Linux users, so we will not need to estimate how many users will benefit from implementing gesture support in toolkit X or application Y.
This is really important, because maintainers of open source projects don't usually care about suggested features if they're not interested in them themselves. A new feature means additional work to them - discussing the design, reviewing PRs and handling of eventual bugs. Often the person who implements a feature disappears after the PR is merged. This makes the maintainers to view all feature proposals with a grain of salt. We need to have a convincing story of how majority end users would benefit in order to make the contributions easier.
Say you have a widget toolkit that doesn't support touchpad gestures. The maintainers of that widget toolkit would be more willing to integrate this feature if there's support in both Xorg and Wayland compared to Wayland alone.
It's not obvious, but adding touchpad gesture support to X will benefit you too even if you're not using X.
This will make our work of convincing the maintainers of other open source projects much easier. X and Wayland cover essentially al Linux users, so we will not need to estimate how many users will benefit from implementing gesture support in toolkit X or application Y.
This is really important, because maintainers of open source projects don't usually care about suggested features if they're not interested in them themselves. A new feature means additional work to them - discussing the design, reviewing PRs and handling of eventual bugs. Often the person who implements a feature disappears after the PR is merged. This makes the maintainers to view all feature proposals with a grain of salt. We need to have a convincing story of how majority end users would benefit in order to make the contributions easier.