On Tuesday 16 April 2019 12:54:00 Matthew Crews wrote: > On 4/16/19 6:54 AM, Reco wrote: > >> I see Linus is drifting back to his older style, issuing the > >> desktop people a whipping they are in need of over the weekend, > >> saying 90% of why linux doesn't control the desktop is that there > >> is not a standardized, one size fits all because it can do all > >> things desktop. > > > > A link please, LKML will suffice. If Linus is back after that CoC > > story in all his former glory - I need to see this. > > Old news. He posted two days ago about Linux Kernel 5.1-rc5: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/14/265 > None of those messages are related to what I read late last week. > > As far as Gnome on Wayland, X.org's days are numbered, and for good > reason. > > The major DEs are all pushing for the move to Wayland, but they > continue to support X because Wayland isn't fully ready. However it > cannot be made ready unless people are actually using it in the wild, > and submitting feedback. > > Additionally, every major Linux distro supports Wayland, provided > their chosen DE supports Wayland. Some major ones even USE Wayland by > default where possible. It will not be long before X is deprecated, > and then fully removed. > > This all stems back to Synaptic being removed from Debian Buster > right? Well, all someone needs to do is update Synaptic with proper > Wayland support. But judging by the upstream development, it appears > that Synaptic might be abandoned? > > https://launchpad.net/synaptic > > Well, it's maintained by an Ubuntu developer, and Ubuntu doesn't even > ship Synaptic anymore. > > All the same, hardly a reason to drop Gnome. > > My 2ยข > > -Matt
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