Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Gaslighting Wayland Devs To Fix Multi Window Apps" video.

  1. Well XWayland will always be a fallback, and virtualization the ultimate fallback.
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  2. I may not be understanding this properly, but the multi-workspace suggestion seems like the solution to make this feasible for tiling WMs, as it allows for arbitrarily irregular geometries. Practically, giving the multi-window workflow access to, say, 3/5 tiles while you have a web browser and a terminal having squares reserved on the remaining two seems like the ideal outcome.
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  3. Tbf, multi-window was the main thing that made it difficult for me to learn GIMP, so when I tried it again after five years, I was pleasantly surprised to find the new one-window modal was the default. But yeah there are a ton of use-cases for multi-window applications, especially if you have multiple monitors, from nonlinear video editors, CAD software (as you say), IDEs, and basically any application where you want a persistent "preview" pane separate from your primary editor or command console.
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  4. It's not wrong, but it's always jarring for me when Brodie says "Windows doesn't support tiling" given my first experience with tiling was Windows 3.1 😂
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