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[Missing Category] Multi-Window Application support #211

Open KilianHanich opened 9 months ago

KilianHanich commented 9 months ago

Multi-Window application are applications which have use multiple windows for very different purposes. These are for example scientific applications, GIMP in multi-window mode and some IDEs. SO all in all huge scientific applications.

While XWayland does support this, Wayland itself does not, meaning that these applications can't be ported.

There are a lot of tries to solve this, but there is always a LOT of bikeshedding involved:

These types of applications are normally assign each window different icons for easier clarification to the user. But the tries to solve that, involves even more bikeshedding: