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GNOME Is Taking Steps Towards Dropping X11 (linuxiac.com)

submitted 11 months ago by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/gnome@discuss.tchncs.de

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[–] EccTM@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Plus there's still Xwayland, Xorg will still be hanging on for the legacy apps.