[Plasma] X11 Support

[Valder N.]

Good afternoon, dear developers of the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment.

Could you please clarify the situation with the news <
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/> about
discontinuing support for the X11 protocol in favor of supporting only the
Wayland protocol starting with version 6.8?

I hope you understand that even according to the data provided in the
article, X11-session is used by 30% of active users. In reality, this
number is significantly higher, and to verify this, you can refer to the
statistics on the use and downloads of individual software packages in the
repositories of active distributions. However, even 30% (!) should be more
than enough to justify the need to continue supporting this protocol.

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.

In particular, in tests on virtual machines, the use of the Wayland
protocol leads to increased RAM consumption, as well as memory leaks over
time. This is not observed in X11 sessions. The “speed” of the working
environment and its “responsiveness” in X11-session is also clearly
noticeable.

In this regard, we kindly request that the entire community that regularly
uses the KDE Plasma desktop and regularly uses X11-session continue to
support X11-session and not follow the path of GNOME.

I sincerely hope for your conscientiousness and responsiveness.



With deep respect,
User who has been using KDE Plasma for over 20 years
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