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About Plasma’s X11 session (pointieststick.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how much actual effort it takes to make sure Plasma keeps compiling for X11, but based on the wording from the blog post it sounds like they're exerting pretty much as little effort as possible. I would say with the recent uptick in leading-edge distros moving to Wayland it's only a matter of time before almost no one is left on X11, which will deprioritize it even further. Pulling the plug on X11 today is premature given how many people are still running it (SteamOS uses it by default, for example), but I think their ~2 year estimate sounds about right for letting off the gas and putting a hard stop on support.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago

Any effort in this area is too much since it is for sure wasted. Even Bugfixes. If people want to use it, they should have stuck with plasma lts or use an lts distro.

I know I'm not majority with this opinion, but plasma 6 should have dropped x11. Plasma 7 should drop xwayland.

Not only does this make sense effort wise, but it prioritizes future and not past development.

Valve can stay with older kwin version and/or support move to Wayland with SDL improvements and whatever else is needed. Not that they lack resources... Also Vulkan.