On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 18:39, Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com> wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz writes: > > > On 1/11/22 07:15, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> > >> Sadly, I expect that Fedora at some point will become exclusively Gnome > and > >> KDE, because only these stacks will support Wayland, in order to ditch > X, > >> and also target the same userbase. This won't happen anytime soon, but > it > >> will happen. > > > > Much of Fedora is user developed. So this need not be the case. It is > > clear from what I read over in Xfce-land that better tools are needed. > > Probably to even better migrate Gnome and KDE to Wayland. > > > > This is a bigger change than systemd and firewalld. But we made those. > We > > will be on Wayland across the board, it seems, in 5 years or less. > > I'm going to reserve the right to pick at the claim that "Fedora is user > developed", if this means that what goes into Fedora depends on what > users > want. "user developed" means stuff users want badly enough to contribute in the form of code, patches, bug reports, and documentation. I do not recall a great clamoring for some of the things that you > mention, and notable amount of opposition from the community. But that's > a > different topic. On the subject matter of time estimates I don't see this > happening in 5 years, if at all. I'm going to go with 7-8 at the least. > If > XFCE does not support Wayland at that point, I guess that'll be the end > of > the XFCE spin. > Or earlier if some new Wayland-based project that improves on XFCE (together with English translation of the docs from the author's native language!) gains traction. -- George N. White III
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