Tim via users writes:
Sam Varshavchik: > Sadly, I expect that Fedora at some point will become exclusively > Gnome and KDE, because only these stacks will support Wayland, in > order to ditch X, and also target the same userbase. This won't > happen anytime soon, but it will happen. I'm still not convinced Wayland's a great idea. The old X had a ton of features that people wanted, but Wayland doesn't. *If* they reimplement them, how's Wayland going to be different from X? If they don't reimplement them, why would those people want to use it?
I couldn't agree more. Wayland is a solution in search of problems. The stated problems with X, that were the purported drivers for Wayland -- I just can't find those problems, myself.
But it's painfully obvious that every effort is being made to ditch X in favor of the Next Greatest Thing. It's a path well trodden by Gnome 3 and systemd. I'm just a realist here, and I see the handwriting on the wall.
The only thing that will keep X in business is a popular widget set or a desktop that does not get ported to Wayland. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that xfce will be enough to keep X around. Maybe not in Fedora, but in other distributions.
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