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Going all-in on a Wayland future (blogs.kde.org)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
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Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

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[–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What is that problem? I'm not knowledgeable about those protocols.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Basically X11 lets everything it does talk to everything else it does. There’s minimal isolation and there’s not a clean way to do that in x11 without fundamentally changing how it works and breaking compatibility. There were also other issues to were too messy to solve without breaking things. So it was better to just start over. And now we have Wayland.

    One example of this is you could have Firefox and a terminal window up in an x11 environment and Firefox could theoretically see everything you are typing in the terminal window.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I think they wanted to know about the original problem solved by X11

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Well we used to need a way for work to be done centrally because powerful matches were expensive. So X11s idea was just do everything remotely and draw the results locally. Then machines go cheaper so X11 was modified to render more locally processed stuff.

    Now, we have thin clients, Citrix, and Remote Desktop what are much less efficient than the old X11 approach.

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