On 9/13/23 12:10 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote:
On 9/13/23 11:53 AM, Aoife Moloney wrote:
> Wiki
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/KDE_Plasma_6
> == Summary ==
> KDE Plasma 6 is successor to KDE Plasma 5 created by the KDE
> Community. It is based on Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 and brings many
> changes and improvements over previous versions. For Fedora Linux, the
> transition to KDE Plasma 6 will also include dropping support for the
> X11 session entirely, leaving only Plasma Wayland as the sole offered
> desktop mode.
I'm more than a bit concerned about dropping X11. I am the packager for KiCad on
Fedora. The upstream KiCad team has stated [1] that they won't support Wayland issues
unless they can be recreated on X11, meaning that I'll be left with no way to support
the Fedora KiCad packages.
For convenience, here is the relevant part of the KiCad position:
It is known that KiCad does not work well under Wayland. There are a number of
known issues with wxWidgets and Wayland. See the wxWidgets bug tracker for details [2].
KiCad requests the XWayland compatibility layer when starting, however this is an
emulation mode and issues arising while using this mode need to be recreated under X11
before they will be addressed. At the moment, Wayland has no support for cursor warping,
which means that the KiCad features of centering the cursor when zooming, and continuously
panning the canvas, are broken on Wayland systems.
Steve
[1]
https://www.kicad.org/help/known-system-related-issues/
[2]
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/labels/Wayland
A question about this - the removal of X11 is listed on a change proposal for KDE. Does
the removal just apply to KDE or would it be distribution wide; i.e. affecting all
desktops?
Steve