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 > > Regards, > Jan > -- > Jan Grulich, > Software Engineer, Desktop Team > Red Hat > Would not produce a good first time user experience on my lenovo X1 carbon. plasma/wayland has never worked acceptably. First it doesn't seem to understand the dpi, everything is ridiculously large. When I try to logout, it locks the machine. _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
