Toodles. It's been nice using kwin as my window manager, but if plasma support for X11 is going then I expect kwin won't be long behind. Whatever, I'm still not using Wayland.
I like KDE but I'm still running X11 on Void Linux, partly because I just don't feel like trying to switch over to Wayland and reconfigure my two systems.
"While we can’t promise all problems will be completely gone"
They could promise to drop support for it once the wayland one reaches feature parity. If any "significant issues" remain, then it's simply not ready for release.
I hate this modern trend of releasing stuff before it is done. And in the commercial space we are now moving on to releasing stuff before they even get started on development. Selling promises. "Buy our shit now and we promise that next year it will be able to do X!"
I think this is the right decision by KDE. Narrowing the scope of work is basically always a good thing for a project. KDE should either switch to wayland, or stay on X11, and not try to do both. And they've clearly decided awhile ago that they consider wayland a requirement.
I say that despite the fact that I think wayland was a poorly conceived, designed, implemented, and marketed project that has set back the adoption of the linux desktop by years.
I like 6.6 and I would mind dropping X11 support this quickly, this ideally should be in KDE 7.0/8.0 because, as I understand it, many apps and drivers are not ready for Wayland/XWayland.
Are there any reasonable on screen keyboards for wayland already? Something on par with onboard i.e. all keys available.
Without that wayland is no go for at least half of my active linux devices.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 30.8 ms ] threadI like KDE but I'm still running X11 on Void Linux, partly because I just don't feel like trying to switch over to Wayland and reconfigure my two systems.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46085593 ("KDE going all-in on a Wayland future (kde.org)"—46 comments)
They could promise to drop support for it once the wayland one reaches feature parity. If any "significant issues" remain, then it's simply not ready for release.
I hate this modern trend of releasing stuff before it is done. And in the commercial space we are now moving on to releasing stuff before they even get started on development. Selling promises. "Buy our shit now and we promise that next year it will be able to do X!"
I say that despite the fact that I think wayland was a poorly conceived, designed, implemented, and marketed project that has set back the adoption of the linux desktop by years.
Give it one more release then drop it?