On 01/08/18 20:50, Jan Grulich wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to discuss and propose that we as KDE SIG move forward and > attempt to use Wayland as default for our KDE Spin in Fedora 28. We will have > to switch soon or later anyway. With Plasma 5.12 and Qt 5.9+ the situation > with wayland should be way better and given that Plasma 5.12 is an LTS > release, then we have high chance that bugs we find are fixed within this > release cycle. If we find out that wayland is still more unusable than usable > and issues cannot be easily solved, then switching back is easy. > Fedora Workstation (Gnome) has switched long time ago, here [1] you can find > their proposal and even they had tons of problems at the beginning, but given > that people actually started using wayland (not just randomly testing it), > then I think it really helped to speed up the whole development process as > people were reporting issues for use cases which the devs couldn not think of > or able to test. > > I'm willing of course to do all the paperwork around, propose a change, write > wiki page, contingency plan and so on and also attempt to help with fixing > wayland issues. > > What do you think about this idea? > > [1] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefault > I will just say that nouveau doesn't play well with my nVidia HW. So, unless Wayland works well with the binary nVidia drivers I'm not going to be very interested in switching. -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly
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