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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270

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.

  • Peasley@lemmy.world
    71·
    2 hours ago

    Damn. I guess it’s finally goodbye window shade or goodbye Plasma. I really wish they’d figured out a solution.

    I get it though. The edge cases will never be fixed until devs know what they are, and GNOME proved this is an effective way to find out. Things like Orca (screen reader for blind and visually impaired) were unusably broken when GNOME switched, but lots of bug reports later it’s mostly working (in non-flatpak apps). Plasma probably has a lot of the same work ahead