There is a good page comparing the two implementations as part of the intro to the larger protocol planning for color and hdr https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pq/color-and-hdr/-/blob/main/...

The implementation is slightly different to make things work better as both older decisions are cleaned up and newer features like per-monitor HDR pipelines are made more approachable.

Not a lot of people realize this, but X11 actually predates Wayland. So I'm glad you pointed that out :P

Yes, it did! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_Window_System

(Note that W and Wayland are wholly unrelated)

Duh. The entire point of wayland is replace x11.

I think the point is that X had this feature when Wayland was launched 16 years ago. That’s not exactly an inspiring pace of development.

Surely it says more about development priorities than about pace? IF they put this at the top of their P0 must have features list and didn’t deliver for 16 years then you’d have a point.

It kind of makes the point the UNIX headless servers and CLI is where GNU/Linux stands.