Re: F43 Change Proposal: Wayland-only GNOME (self-contained)

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 05:53:17PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 07:55:53PM +0100, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce wrote:
> > > == Benefit to Fedora ==
> > > This aligns us with the effort going on upstream to retire the GNOME
> > > X11 session. It also aligns us with Fedora KDE. Like the Fedora KDE
> > > SIG, the Fedora Workstation WG recommends and supports the Wayland
> > > platform for graphics.
> > >
> > > Fedora Workstation has a long history of developing and promoting the
> > > Wayland experience for GNOME, and
> > > [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefaultOnNVIDIA it
> > > has been the primary experience for all users (including those with
> > > NVIDIA cards) since Fedora Linux 36]. This continuation of
> > > [[WaylandOnlyGNOMEWorkstationMedia|the work in Fedora Linux 41 to drop
> > > the X11 session from the media]] reaffirms our commitment to the
> > > Wayland GNOME experience in furtherance of the goal to provide the
> > > highest quality GNOME experience through Fedora Workstation.
> >
> > I find this motivation a bit of a stretch.
> >
> > Firstly, it doesn't really align us with upstream, since we're doing
> > something that upstream is not doing (yet).
>
> I'm a bit confused here tho, as my understanding is that upstream does
> indeed plan to remove this in the upcoming cycle, so the gnome version
> thats included in f43 (which this change is for) _will_ have removed it
> upstream.
>
> In that sense, isn't this just a 'hey, heads up, this is going away in
> f43' change?
>

When I wrote it, that wasn't the case (it was being considered). It
seems to be leaning that way now, indeed.



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