Am Mi., 13. Sept. 2023 um 23:29 Uhr schrieb Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 5:24 PM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 11:19 PM Steven A. Falco <stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > A question about this - the removal of X11 is listed on a change proposal for KDE. Does the removal just apply to KDE or would it be distribution wide; i.e. affecting all desktops? > > > > I assume the following is not meant literally: > > > > """ > > For Fedora Linux, the > > transition to KDE Plasma 6 will also include dropping support for the > > X11 session entirely, leaving only Plasma Wayland as the sole offered > > desktop mode. > > """ > > > > I doubt that the intention is to drop X11 sessions entirely and make > > "Plasma Wayland" the only session available on Fedora *in general*, > > but rather that the "Plasma X11" session will be dropped, and that > > "Plasma Wayland" will be the only *Plasma* session available. > > > > Yes! Sorry if it's ambiguous, it's hard to write this to account for > all the ways it can be interpreted. This is scoped to the KDE Plasma > solution stack. The proposal is clearly about KDE plasma and *its* sessions. Or else "leaving only Plasma Wayland as the sole offered desktop mode" would have to mean the end of all other desktops on Fedora ;-) > Other desktops can and will make their own choices on the transition to Wayland. Rightly so. Fewer and fewer will pull in X11, and that's a good change. Now, if you (as in "they" - not you Neal, obviously) see "change" and something Wayland has not worked in the past and you go ballistic about it then for you (as in "they") that formulation might be ambiguous. But if you take a breath or a step back or both then the proposal is crystal clear. At the same time, there is no way around it given upstream's directions. Talking of upstream: I see some upstreams giving up on Wayland support. Kicad was reported here, Scribus is another one. It's a surprising time to do that, but probably indicates toolkit issues or simply lack of people power. I hope we can help at least on the toolkit side. That would be time well spent - invested in the future of the platform. Nobody will stop anyone from shipping a plasma-x11 package (and it's ridiculous to try and read that into the proposal) or even a full stack plasma 5, but that will just drag out the transition that is happening nonetheless. Full disclosure: Writing this from F38/X11/i3 ;-) F39 should be a good release to try the switch (Wayland/sway for me), and in fact for some releases we have had dual session options now at least for Gnome and KDE (X11/Wayland) so that one could try and switch apps gradually. Reliance on WebRTC (and the switches i3/sway, st/foot etc) made me chicken out so far, but now is the time! Michael _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
