Hi. On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:54:02PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 15/4/19 9:31 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:> Because GNOME. GNOME's upstream > said their word loud and clear, and that > > word is - 'thou shall use Wayland for it is our favorite toy now'.
I wrote it, in reply to Thomas e-mail. Please watch who you quote. > Now Tomas quips about gnome is insisting that we like a new video process, > just because the team have decided to like it lots. No. What I wrote that for several years you had the possibility to run GNOME on Wayland. And it will be the default in the next stable Debian. Because (and here you're correct) - upstream wants that everyone use the GNOME that way. You have the ability to run GNOME over X. For now. I predicted that such ability may disappear in unspecified future (probably - years). Because GNOME upstream is (in)famous for feature removal. > I say this is NOT freedom. The usual arguments apply. Don't like it - patch it. Patches are welcome. They have the commit bit - you do not. Etc. And yes, there are some who did exactly that - Mate DE, Cinnamon DE to name a few examples. > So, I am asking that gnome be dropped as an installation option (not > just as the default desktop) until they encourage freedom. There's an appropriate place for such wishes, it's called https://bugs.debian.org. Reco
