Sujet : Re: killing X11
De : theom+news (at) *nospam* chiark.greenend.org.uk (Theo)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 23. Jun 2025, 12:56:01
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Organisation : University of Cambridge, England
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:39:53 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:
It all starts with a popular toolkit library like QTK. Even if people
don't upgrade X11, if they run a browser, they're on the upgrade
treadmill.
If you try to pull an XFree86, someone will pull an Xorg on you.
They already did:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/new_version_of_xorg_x11/although unclear how much takeup this will get.
Partly it's a response to the Wayland developers refrain of "Wayland is the
One True Way; we're not sorry that all the basic stuff you relied on with
X11 doesn't work; we don't care". Meanwhile, with tools for doing Real
Work:
https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/Theo
killing X11
Re: killing X11