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GNOME Moves On: What the End of the X11 Session Means (linuxiac.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago (16 children)

As typical, GNOME has a tendency to drop support to older software before the newer one is ready. I'm glad that I dumped it in 3.0 times.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

They are essentially doing the same as KDE, whose statement was linked in the article.

KDE

For now, the Plasma X11 session remains in maintenance mode. That means critical issues—like login failures or major regressions—will still be addressed. However, minor bugs are unlikely to get fixes unless funded, and new X11-specific features are off the table entirely.

Gnome

First things first: Xorg isn’t being abandoned outright. It remains maintained and is receiving necessary security patches and bug fixes. However, active development has effectively halted, with most of its original contributors now focused on Wayland.

Edit - added Gnome quote effectively saying the same thing.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

Odds are they're doing the same thing only in theory. In practice, the picture changes - typically the KDE devs are far more willing to maintain old and marginal features and/or support benefiting only a small chunk of the userbase. While the GNOME devs are way more likely to ditch it, babble something about their design vision, then try to convince the user "ackshyually you don't need it".

(A major exception is perhaps accessibility, mentioned in the text. It isn't just the Wayland devs worried about it, but also the KDE and GNOME devs. In this regard props to all three.)

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