Graham: about Plasma’s X11 session

KDE contributor Nate Graham recently wroteabout the KDE Project's plans for Plasma's X11 session. He notes thatthe project will continue to ensure that Plasma "continues tocompile and deploy on X11" and isn't horribly broken. Majorregressions will probably be fixed, eventually, but the writing is onthe wall:

X11's upstream development has dropped off significantly in recentyears, and X11 isn't able to perform up to the standards of whatpeople expect today with respect to HDR, 10 bits-per-color monitors,other fancy monitor features, multi-monitor setups (especially withmixed DPIs or refresh rates), multi-GPU setups, screen tearing,security, crash robustness, input handling, and more.

As for when Plasma will drop support for X11? There's currently nofirm timeline for this, and I certainly don't expect it to happen inthe next year, or even the next two years. But that's just a guess; itdepends on how quickly we implement everything onhttps://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues. Ourplan is to handle everything on that page such that even the mosthardcore X11 user doesn't notice anything missing when they move toWayland.