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.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Apparently, this is hardly hyperbole. For example: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377162

      Talk about arrogance. In the window paradigm, only a few desktops ever REQUIRED a similar look and feel for all windows. Apple was the worst offender for that. I suggest that if Edmundson wants a similar look and feel, he should go get himself a Mac and stop mucking up KDE.

      From a quick look at the proposed patch - and obviously without having the full picture - it’s true that it would add some complexity. But it’s code for the sake of people’s convenience, not the other way around, right? IMHO, as long as:

      • shading is off by default,
      • users get a clear message about limitations and SSD/CSD complications before enabling it,
      • the implementation doesn’t introduce impossible-to-maintain logic and limits some weird edge cases like resizing a shaded window, then it’s worth doing.
      • majster@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        10 days ago

        So there is no shading on KDE Wayland? This feature works in Labwc. Death by thousand papercuts…

        • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          I suppose not. Not yet.

          I know people are particular about WMs, but having to minimize a window vs keeping the window decoration in place seems like a… very minor distinction.

          Is the use case rearranging a ton of windows? Something like that?