On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:42:02 +0200 Pavel Sanda <p...@twin.jikos.cz> said:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 06:03:35AM +0000, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 08:43:05 +0800 (GMT+08:00) zgw199012 <zgw199...@126.com>
> > said:
> > > By the way, I think wayland is advanced and compact, what's wrong with it
> > > and not support it any more? Thanks.
> > 
> ...
> > more... it's just a lot of work. only some amount of work has been done.
> > right now i'm not looking at wayland as my todo list has me focusing on
> > other things like efm. will come around to wayland once devilhorns finishes
> > off some stuff he was doing there in ecore_drm2 and so on.
> 
> Spinning off the question - is there any chance that e16 could work within
> walyand universe without significant rewrite/is existence of XWayland of any
> relief here?

no.

> Redhat announced dropping Xorg server (all X11 stuff will be supported via
> XWayland) for RHEL 10 (first half of 2025). Given that majority of Xorg code
> maintenance comes from redhat itself, that means stop for new features once
> RHEL 9 switches to maintenance phase (~2-3years) and demise of any support in

xorg pretty much has not been getting new features for many years... :) most
stuff has been built alongside or on top.

> ~6 years. That of course does not imply what other distros will do, but my
> guess is that once the main maintainer drops off, Xorg will abandoned as well
> rather quickly as Xorg is hard to maintain and everyone goes wayland anyway.
> 
> So does this timeline applies for e16 as well or is there some way out? 

don;'t use rhel or fedora then - use something else. people have turned up on
xorg mailing lists offering to pick up maintaining it.

> Pavel
> 
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