That is potentially unfortunate. It is unclear from the Fedora proposal whether this is just dropping X11 support for Plasma or dropping X11 support for the entire distribution.
If it is only dropping it for Plasma but still packaging it for users to install, then this is fine. We will just continue to recommend that Fedora users install X11 and use a desktop WM that supports it. If Fedora does decide to drop all X11 support, we will probably be forced to drop Fedora from our list of supported distributions. Since this will create bugs that the KiCad team cannot fix, it doesn't make sense to continue directly supporting it. Of course, packaging could still happen and KiCad could still be used under emulation but we'd stop recommending it as a viable option. Seth [image: KiCad Services Corporation Logo] Seth Hillbrand *Lead Developer* +1-530-302-5483 Long Beach, CA www.kipro-pcb.com [email protected] On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 9:20 AM Steven A. Falco <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a proposed change for Fedora 40 [1] where the proposal is to > upgrade KDE to version 6, and exclusively support wayland, dropping all > support for X11. > > I've posted to the development list [2] expressing my concerns. At the > moment, dropping X11 is just a proposal, but it seems likely to happen at > some point, so I wanted to make the KiCad dev team aware of the > possibilities. > > Steve > > [1] > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/I3O6DZCT6WFGF5SQ2IPJSYAVBGZ3N47U/ > [2] > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7VBJCMY3OLWMTFY4KNYYCTODLXBNDABZ/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/57b1f4fc-a110-7813-7c29-4ea273fa74a2%40gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAFdeG-psLWNMtx7bFbmsUbA6gXkSqmjtHqOFMQU3Qcc7shta4A%40mail.gmail.com.
