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GNOME Moves On: What the End of the X11 Session Means (linuxiac.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago (16 children)

As typical, GNOME has a tendency to drop support to older software before the newer one is ready. I'm glad that I dumped it in 3.0 times.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

They are essentially doing the same as KDE, whose statement was linked in the article.

KDE

For now, the Plasma X11 session remains in maintenance mode. That means critical issues—like login failures or major regressions—will still be addressed. However, minor bugs are unlikely to get fixes unless funded, and new X11-specific features are off the table entirely.

Gnome

First things first: Xorg isn’t being abandoned outright. It remains maintained and is receiving necessary security patches and bug fixes. However, active development has effectively halted, with most of its original contributors now focused on Wayland.

Edit - added Gnome quote effectively saying the same thing.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Even here the KDE communication is better on details. the gnome quote is less crisp on what it means by "active development" where as KDE precisely defines what will and will not be supported

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That and if you go on the gnome forums, their attitude IMO seems openly hostile to.. almost everything and everyone.

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