On 3/12/25 10:03, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM Justin Zobel<[email protected]> wrote:
On 3/12/25 08:54, Tobias Leupold wrote:
I'd love continuing seeing freedom of choice
This exists and everyone is free to take the x11 code that is currently in
KWin, Plasma and other related components and use it. When that code is removed
from KDE repositories, anyone is free to maintain their own patch set on top of
KDE's code to re-enable x11. I think that is the freedom we all have with open
source code.
I have been Wayland only with all of my devices for about 2 years now and
haven't found a need to go back. The amount of things that *require* x11 are
almost nil. XWayland supports a great deal of things transparently, so much
that I often forget it exists.
There is (from my understanding) basically no need to continue using X, many
distros are now defaulting to it and the major players are intending to drop it
because it is old and practically unmaintained, as well as having (again from
my understanding) multiple issues in relation to security.
And KDE Plasma is also unusual among Wayland environments in giving
unparalleled backward compatibility to X11 applications. We have a
settings panel for this in System Settings, and if you install
xwaylandvideobridge, you even have a way for X11 applications that
need to access the screen to see things on the Wayland desktop *that
you control*.
I have basically never needed the X11 session in four years because of
the awesome work the KDE Plasma developers have done in providing this
functionality in Plasma Wayland.
xwaylandvideobridge is now retired:
https://invent.kde.org/system/xwaylandvideobridge
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真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
Justin
