Fedora isn't removing the x server completely. This is just the equivalent for KDE of what Gnome did a while ago in using a Wayland session. Dropping Wayland support would break many other WMs in the distro, and FESCO would see that as a major problem/non-starter.
-Ian On Wed, 13 Sep 2023, 17:29 Seth Hillbrand, <[email protected]> wrote: > That is potentially unfortunate. It is unclear from the Fedora proposal > whether this is just dropping X11 support for Plasma or dropping X11 > support for the entire distribution. > > If it is only dropping it for Plasma but still packaging it for users to > install, then this is fine. We will just continue to recommend that Fedora > users install X11 and use a desktop WM that supports it. > > If Fedora does decide to drop all X11 support, we will probably be forced > to drop Fedora from our list of supported distributions. Since this will > create bugs that the KiCad team cannot fix, it doesn't make sense to > continue directly supporting it. Of course, packaging could still happen > and KiCad could still be used under emulation but we'd stop recommending it > as a viable option. > > Seth > > > [image: KiCad Services Corporation Logo] > Seth Hillbrand > *Lead Developer* > +1-530-302-5483 > Long Beach, CA > www.kipro-pcb.com [email protected] > > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 9:20 AM Steven A. Falco <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> There is a proposed change for Fedora 40 [1] where the proposal is to >> upgrade KDE to version 6, and exclusively support wayland, dropping all >> support for X11. >> >> I've posted to the development list [2] expressing my concerns. At the >> moment, dropping X11 is just a proposal, but it seems likely to happen at >> some point, so I wanted to make the KiCad dev team aware of the >> possibilities. >> >> Steve >> >> [1] >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/I3O6DZCT6WFGF5SQ2IPJSYAVBGZ3N47U/ >> [2] >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7VBJCMY3OLWMTFY4KNYYCTODLXBNDABZ/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "KiCad Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/57b1f4fc-a110-7813-7c29-4ea273fa74a2%40gmail.com >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAFdeG-psLWNMtx7bFbmsUbA6gXkSqmjtHqOFMQU3Qcc7shta4A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAFdeG-psLWNMtx7bFbmsUbA6gXkSqmjtHqOFMQU3Qcc7shta4A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CACp%3DVfaCX3Qdsi5ETWjODPWppLkfV9V5rLLve%2BqgmF2c%3Db-CGA%40mail.gmail.com.
