Re: X11 vs Wayland: KiCAD story.

2025-06-19 Thread Alan C. Assis
Yes, I think many Linux Distros will keep X11 support for many years, but then there is another issue: companies will follow the "mainstream" distros and will develop tools for Wayland. This will keep this old-school distros out of the commercial game (pun intended), this is not a big issue if you

Re: X11 vs Wayland: KiCAD story.

2025-06-19 Thread Michał Łyszczek
On 2025-06-18 09:19:16, Nathan Hartman wrote: > Currently I use it on Debian, but if Debian ever goes Wayland-only, I may > have to switch to FreeBSD, in the hopes that they won't eliminate good ol' > X11 Well, there is always Gentoo, I think x11 will be there until x11 stops being maintained u

X11 vs Wayland: KiCAD story.

2025-06-18 Thread Alan C. Assis
Hi Tomek, Xorg also is getting forked, BTW a nice article: https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xlibre.html I truly believe that the idea of Wayland created by Kristian Høgsberg was to fix many issues existing in X11. But of course, just like PulseAudio and Systemd from Lennart Poettering, this p

Re: X11 vs Wayland: KiCAD story.

2025-06-18 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM Nathan Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM Tomek CEDRO wrote: > > > https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/ > > > > Looks like (self-)compatibility problem of enforced changes solutions > > is arising in the Open-Source world and

Re: X11 vs Wayland: KiCAD story.

2025-06-18 Thread Nathan Hartman
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM Tomek CEDRO wrote: > https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/ > > Looks like (self-)compatibility problem of enforced changes solutions > is arising in the Open-Source world and statements are made in more > and more projects :-) > > -- > CeDeR

X11 vs Wayland: KiCAD story.

2025-06-18 Thread Tomek CEDRO
https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/ Looks like (self-)compatibility problem of enforced changes solutions is arising in the Open-Source world and statements are made in more and more projects :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info