Wayland/Xlibre

[Tobias Leupold]

Hi all,

I just stumbled upon https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,8955.0.html 
where some Artix user ranted about Plasma going "Wayland-only", and 
questioning if Plasma would choose the same path as Gnome (which was or will 
be actually removed from Artix due to hard dependencies on Systemd).

I myself don't use Systemd distributions (Gentoo, Artix and Devuan for me, all 
with OpenRC), always using X. And I still don't really get the point of 
Wayland's raison d'être. I'm not really fully into this though. But with 
Xlibre raising, we apparently will get a X successor that will fix X's flaws 
without being Wayland – which still seems to be discussed controversially 
after all this years.

So, without having a deep knowledge of all this, and without wanting to start 
some flame-war: What's the status of Plasma concerning Wayland and Xlibre? Why 
do we want to take sides to Wayland, even if Xlibre emerged recently?

I'd love continuing seeing freedom of choice, may it be the init system or the 
display server. That's the whole point of what we do, no?

Thanks for all insights about this!

Cheers, Tobias