Neal Gompa wrote:
To summarize: there's no such thing as a "good" time to do it, and the SIG feels that doing it at the Plasma 6.0 major version upgrade allows us to reset expectations, as users are used to major versions being significantly different than their predecessors. Otherwise, we have to do it sometime later in the middle of the Plasma 6.x lifetime, which was much less appealing.
I doubt Wayland will be a fully functional replacement for X11 even by the time Plasma 7 will be released. Surely not in the 6.x lifetime.
The discussion on this thread has been mostly quite helpful, and has allowed me to provide feedback to KDE developers on prioritizing things for Plasma 6 development[2].
Unfortunately, you are only cherry-picking individual issues people have found with Wayland (and it is very unlikely they will all be addressed in time for F40, as some are quite fundamental and/or require several separate codebases to be updated in lockstep) and completely ignoring the general opposition to dropping X11 to begin with.
Kevin Kofler