Re: Wayland by default for Fedora 28

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On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 7:50 AM, Jan Grulich <jgrulich@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 think this is a fantastic idea. I've been wondering when we would do
this for a while now.


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