Don't drop X11 support after Plasma 6.7 (last release Feb 2027)

[Marco Martin]

On Monday, 2 February 2026 16.13.45 Central European Standard Time Piotr H. 
Dabrowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a followup thread from
> https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2026-January/123858.html
> 
> Quoting myself again:
> > with Plasma 6.7 being the last version with X11 support
> > 6.7.7 2027-02-02
> 
> I think dropping support for an ACTUALLY WORKING, VERY STABLE, and
> BATTLE-TESTED environment like Xorg/XLibre in favor of a solution where

Feelings aside, there is one kindof.. misconception about something being very 
stable forever.
In a complex stack, things even when they are not touched they bitrot and get 
worse over time.
Nowdays we actually get way more crash reports on X11 than Wayland and more 
reports of things just starting to behave kinda wrong, despite having much 
more users on wayland nowdays.
(and yes, until we definitely kill it we do still address those issues)
The fact is, even if we poured all of ourselves into maintaining the X11 
session forever, the whole stack around us is bitrotting. Xorg is, and Xlibre 
isn't enough, becauseall the major graphics drivers are starting to have more 
and more x11-only bugs, they are just less tested nowdays.
In other words: we just can't afford it, because the whole stack is moving on.
All we can do is making the current technology being actively dewveloped, 
which is wayland work as good as we can, and to fix everything that is still 
problematic, while taking advantage of the many things we can do in wayland 
and we couldn't on X11


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Marco Martin