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| pikapika | Does ubuntu plan to go wayland in future? Will x11 still be available to install if it does? | 14:54 |
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| pikapika | Hi remline | 15:12 |
| blue_penquin | pikapika: Yes x11 will be available only the default session is changing to wayland and for people with NVIDIA hardware that will still remain as the default session. | 15:31 |
| pikapika | blue_penquin, thats alarming | 15:32 |
| pikapika | Which release? | 15:32 |
| blue_penquin | What's alarming? It's going to change in upcoming 21.04. | 15:33 |
| pikapika | blue_penquin, imposition of half baked replacements for years old software | 15:36 |
| blue_penquin | It's not half-baked. | 15:38 |
| blue_penquin | And you can continue to use X11 if you wish I don't see what's the issue. | 15:39 |
| pikapika | The writings on the wall. I fear X will be slowly abandoned. | 15:39 |
| Maik | pikapika: probably in the future. After 12 years of development Wayland is still not ready yet, also not all desktop environments have been made comaptible with it | 15:46 |
| Maik | Ubuntu is the only one that will ship Wayland by default, the other official flavours will still use Xorg | 15:47 |
| blue_penquin | pikapika: It'll, hopfully sooner the better. Right now wayland is missing a lot of customisation and quirks that people used to to with various x* cli tools some of them have working alternatives; some of them won't have. | 15:49 |
| blue_penquin | This is Due to A)not being developed, for example xmodmap B)delegated to the compositor which doesn't have a setting for example controlling scroll speed - gcc will provide that in the future. C) Wayland protocol doesn't allow for security reasons | 15:49 |
| pikapika | Maik, is Debian's policy regarding wayland known? | 15:51 |
| blue_penquin | And for your applications browser support wayland; FF is better in this regard; all GNOME apps support it; Qt supports it, electron 12 or greater does but it is right now a bit buggy and you can always use xwayland. | 15:51 |
| blue_penquin | pikapika: Debian defaulted to it earlier https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland#Supported_environments | 15:53 |
| pikapika | Thats alarming | 15:54 |
| blue_penquin | Wayland experience on GNOME is better than KDE in my opinion although KDE is making good progress every week. And the other three major ones won't have wayland support anytime soon. | 15:56 |
| Maik | Fedora uses Wayland by default for a long time, the more distro's use it the more reports users file the better development gets. | 15:58 |
| pikapika | Gnome has already gone down a dark path | 15:58 |
| pikapika | I worry more about XFCE falling | 15:58 |
| pikapika | Maik, the question is less one that of sufficient users reporting bugs, more that of their attitude regarding user reports | 15:59 |
| pikapika | Do they brazenly shut down the users or do they actually listen to them? | 15:59 |
| Maik | since it has nothing to do with a support question regarding Ubuntu 21.04, i guess this discussion would fit better in #ubuntu-discuss | 16:00 |
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| pikapika | Ok, sorry | 16:09 |
| Maik | np | 16:13 |
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