This is a great change in my opinion. Nobody wants to give support and effort into dying projects
It will mean even less attention is given to X11 as project, if that’s possible.
Gnome devs would no longer be interested in resolving any X11-related compatibility issues.
- There are other submitted Merge Requests to that gnome-session GitLab repository that are 3 years old and are still open. This is only a proposal, and doesn’t actually mean it’s happening.
- If GNOME developers want to focus on expanding Wayland support instead of maintaining X11 support, surely that’s their choice - they’re mostly volunteers anyway, shouldn’t they get to decide what they want to work on?
- If other developers still want X11 support, they can branch these session targets and X11 support code off into a separate package and handle maintaining it.
- X11 released in 1987. It had a great run.
Mmm, im not happy about this. Rn there is a bug affecting amd gpus on gnome wayland that crashes the entire desktop. A fix is hoped to arrive in kernel v6.6, but until then ive been using xorg as a fallback.
I understand its gonna take a while until xorg is fully gone from gnome, but ive grown kind to having such fallback whenever wayland has a nasty issue.
On ProtonDB using X11 is like, an obvious tweak for a lot of games that aren’t native to Linux 😓
That makes sense. The last time I used gnome on X it was a buggy experience