Re: just to let you know FESCo agreed to a preliminary injunction while we consider this issue

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On Tue, 2024-01-30 at 09:57 -0500, Steven A. Falco wrote:
> On 1/30/24 08:55 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 08:38:51AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > > 3) Fedora has a long-standing and well-communicated stance that
> > > we are
> > > a Wayland distribution first and foremost and that X11 support is
> > > intended as a migration-support tool rather than a first-class
> > > citizen.
> > 
> > Does it?  This is very much news to me, so I don't think you can
> > call
> > it "well-communicated".  We also have an XFCE desktop spin and
> > probably others that require X11.
> > https://fedoraproject.org/uk/spins/xfce/
> > 
> > In addition Wayland doesn't actually replace all the basic
> > functionality of X11 even after all these years, which is why I
> > need
> > to use it.
> 
> I'm in the same boat.  Back in September when this topic came up,
> folks were invited to write bugs so the missing functionality could
> presumably be worked on.
> 
> I wrote two bugs:
> 
> Bug 2239016 - Plasma(Wayland) does not honor window positioning when
> setting window geometry
> Bug 2239029 - Plasma(Wayland) does not save windows between sessions
> 
> For 2239016 the response was "That's just how wayland works" and for
> 2239029 someone added a reference to an upstream KDE bug (from 2021).
> 
> I realize that this is a volunteer-driven project, and that I cannot
> expect someone to address the above wayland limitations, especially
> since the wayland design philosophy appears to exclude such features.
> 
> But that doesn't change the fact that I need the missing
> functionality, and based on how this discussion is going, I
> personally doubt wayland will ever meet my needs.
> 
> I'm delighted that there are like-minded folks who want to maintain
> X11.  Please allow them to do so.
> 
>         Steve


Steven, thank you for the serene explanations and for highlighting an
important point about waynland, wayland seems to miss some important
features. 



> > > 4) There was a comment on the FESCo ticket to the effect of '"you
> > > must
> > > move to Wayland because no one maintains X11!". Here are some
> > > people
> > > who are maintaining X11 packages, so let them do their thing.'
> > > This is
> > > misleading, as the move to Wayland is specifically because the
> > > upstream of X11 *itself* is largely unmaintained. These packages
> > > are
> > > not maintaining X11, they are adding new dependencies on it.
> > 
> > They're maintaining parts of the X11 stack.
> > 
> > > My proposal for consideration is this:
> > > "FESCo will allow these packages in the main Fedora repositories,
> > > however they may not be included by default on any release-
> > > blocking
> > > deliverable (ISO, image, etc.)"
> > 
> > It seems quite strong.  I'm unclear why having X11 packages and
> > spins
> > for those that want to use them is a problem.  It seems like the
> > missing functionality of Wayland is the bigger issue that needs to
> > be
> > addressed.
> > 
> > Rich.
> > 
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