[Plasma] X11 Support

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2025, 15:43:53 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit 
schrieb Valder N.:
> 
> Perhaps in the future (but apparently not soon!), Wayland will replace X11,
> but this should be done in an evolutionary manner, rather than by cutting
> off support for what currently works and provides the best performance.
> 

Hmm, no answer from any officials, interesting. 

I wrote this letter today:

Hi KDE-Board,

I just wanted to let you know, that KDE, my favorite desktop since 26 years, 
is about to pass away from my workstation/laptops due to the move away from X. 
With the Wayland based desktop, it is missing an essential feature for me: 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377162.

With that, it feels stupid to keep up with my quarterly donation to KDE e.V.

What a pity.

Be assured, that without this feature, a lot of people will turn away from 
KDE. While looking like a minor feature difference to many, for those that use 
it in their daily routines, it will be missed badly. Either, we change our 
habits completely, or find an alternative desktop (window manager), that will 
still provide it.

Best,
Pete

P.S.: Apart from supporting openSUSE, maintaining more than one hundred 
packages on OBS, including Blender, I used to maintain {SuSE,openSUSE} based, 
multi headed diskless workstation setups for some companies, using KDE 1,2,3, 
and 4, starting in 1999. So, I do provide my share of 2¢s to the Open-Source 
community.
-- 
Life without chameleons is possible, but pointless.
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