Xorg development effort slowing in favour of Wayland
by John Lumby from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6H8QF)
Two related trends happening :
1. "Xorg isn't going to be receiving much more development effort in favour of Wayland" ( from
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-de...er/059054.html
)
2. desktop environments switching to Wayland : e.g.
"change in KDE Plasma 6.0 is the strong push for Wayland to be the default session type. While the X11 session will still be available, the Plasma team highly recommends the adoption of Wayland as the go-to choice. However, distributions will be free to override this recommendation and continue defaulting to X11 if they find it more suitable for their needs."
( from
https://debugpointnews.com/plasma-6-may-update/
)
Also see Redhat Enterprise plans :
https://who-t.blogspot.com/2023/12/x...this-mean.html
Are any slackers concerned about this? Well as you can guess, I am.
The way I setup my my various laptops and workstations to share one monitor requires use of Xorg, and (correct me if wrong) Wayland cannot do such client-server networking things in the same way.
Xorg is calling for volunteers for various tasks. (see the thread in lists.x.org/archives). Is it in the Slackware project's general interest to help out? Or do slackers on the whole welcome the trend and are happy to see Xorg dwindle and eventually (I suppose) go to extras and pasture as KDE and others phase it out? What does our BDFL think?
And did I miss this already being discussed somewhere else here in this linuxquestions Slackware?
Cheers, John Lumby
1. "Xorg isn't going to be receiving much more development effort in favour of Wayland" ( from
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-de...er/059054.html
)
2. desktop environments switching to Wayland : e.g.
"change in KDE Plasma 6.0 is the strong push for Wayland to be the default session type. While the X11 session will still be available, the Plasma team highly recommends the adoption of Wayland as the go-to choice. However, distributions will be free to override this recommendation and continue defaulting to X11 if they find it more suitable for their needs."
( from
https://debugpointnews.com/plasma-6-may-update/
)
Also see Redhat Enterprise plans :
https://who-t.blogspot.com/2023/12/x...this-mean.html
Are any slackers concerned about this? Well as you can guess, I am.
The way I setup my my various laptops and workstations to share one monitor requires use of Xorg, and (correct me if wrong) Wayland cannot do such client-server networking things in the same way.
Xorg is calling for volunteers for various tasks. (see the thread in lists.x.org/archives). Is it in the Slackware project's general interest to help out? Or do slackers on the whole welcome the trend and are happy to see Xorg dwindle and eventually (I suppose) go to extras and pasture as KDE and others phase it out? What does our BDFL think?
And did I miss this already being discussed somewhere else here in this linuxquestions Slackware?
Cheers, John Lumby