Kevin Krammer posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:05:32 +0200 as excerpted:
> I think in the context of "running KDE on wayland/xorg/whateverplatform"
> it makes most sense to remember that KDE is not a single product but a
> vendor with a large portfolio of software products.
>
> Most applications do not have any X11 dependencies as of know so they
> will be unaffected by changes in the underlying windowing system (due to
> Qt's platform abstraction system QPA).
>
> Some applications have lots of X11 dependencies due to the jobs they
> have been built to do, e.g. KWin was designed to be an X11 window
> manager and compositor, so it needs to understand all kinds of
> communication protocols that X11 clients (normal programs) use to
> communicate with the window manager.
>
> If I understand its maintainer's blogs correctly, support for Wayland is
> something they want to have, e.g. running KWin as the session's Wayland
> compositor. Whether or not this means dropping code for being an X11
> window manager cannot be said at this point. There hasn't been any
> statement in support for either option.
As always, thanks, Kevin. =:^)
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