Going all-in on a Wayland future
blogs.kde.org
Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
    563·
    8 hours ago

    “For most users, this will have no immediate impact. The vast majority of our users are already using the Wayland session”

    So happy to read this as there is always somebody still claiming that “Wayland does not work” and “nobody wants to switch to Wayland” just because they have not.

    Also great to see that the plan is for Wayland on FreeBSD as well so the Open Source desktops can stay aligned. GNOME on FreeBSD is more problematic, not because of Wayland but because of Systemd.

    • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      The problem isn’t really with Wayland not working though, it’s with other software not being caught up to work fully with wayland.

      For example, in X, I can have my single screen windows work laptop display to my multi-monitor linux machine with remmina and be able to interact with the laptop as if it had multiple monitors.

      Remmina cannot do this with Wayland as far as I have been able to determine.

      Clearly not the fault of Wayland, but also kind of a pain in the ass that there are issues like this since some other maintainers/devs haven’t implemented what is required in their software yet.

        • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 hour ago

          It’s understandable on some level: if you’re suddenly no longer part of the majority tribe you know you’ll get fewer bug fixes and so on.

          So bullying and FUDing people into staying with your tribe could pay off.

          What I don’t get is how they don’t realize that they’ve lost. PulseAudio (through PipeWire) is here to stay. Systemd is here to stay. Wayland is here to stay.

          Maybe they just like being contrarian if they can’t win.

          • BunScientist@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            10 minutes ago

            The main thing is that pipewire is a drop-in replacement because of how it works, wayland isnt