On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM Justin Zobel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
Sure, but it still works and is packaged in most distributions, and it can be unretired if needed. :) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
