On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 12:12 PM Steven A. Falco <stevenfalco(a)gmail.com> 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.
It looks like the cursor warping is supported in all major compositors
with the cursor-constraints protocol:
https://wayland.app/protocols/pointer-constraints-unstable-v1
Beyond that, I think it's probably a good idea to get a bug filed with
KDE upstream to get this tracked and figured out with the wxWidgets
folks. Of all the folks involved in the Wayland protocols development,
they are by far the easiest to work with.
There's also a Matrix room about KDE Wayland stuff if you would like
to talk to developers directly about these things:
https://matrix.to/#/#kde-wayland-goal:kde.org
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