Going all-in on a Wayland future
blogs.kde.org
Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

After nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release (due early 2027) will be Wayland-exclusive.

Read the FAQ in the link to find out what this means for you and the future of KDE.

  • Matty_r@programming.dev
    7·
    11 hours ago

    Thats quite the runway. That helps them focus the attention on Wayland specific issues to get it more up to speed with X11.

      • waffle@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        12 hours ago

        Many things still don’t have a XDG portal like reading absolute cursor position (useful for some accessibility and productivity apps) and things who do have an XDG portal like screenshoting are usually not implemented in popular OS-agnostic libraries

        Those things aren’t supported in XWayland either for security reasons iirc and require X11 but I could be wrong

        • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          11 hours ago

          Among other things, yeah. I know it’s coming, but windows having no idea where they were last time they were launched is a major annoyance. Not to mention a few games that crash on Wayland, and not on X11

          • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
            3·
            10 hours ago

            Those are all perfectly valid reasons.

            Sometimes I feel the Linux community is too eager to jump on the latest shiny new thing, even when it’s not finished or lacking important features, or has bugs.

            • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              10 hours ago

              That’s the thing, I’m really not against Wayland. It 100% is smoother than X11, feels more premium in a way. And code-wise, it’s far easier to maintain.

              But so many missing features make it tough to leave x11 behind. Even if just to switch to it once a week when needed.

            • Lumisal@lemmy.world
              1·
              9 hours ago

              Counterpoint, the Linux community is also happy to keep old and ancient things alive as well.

              Just look at how many 32 bit dedicated distros are out there. There’s even 16 bit ones.