▲ 239 ▼ GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5 (www.phoronix.com) submitted 2 years ago by _carmin@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml 62 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) As much as I love Wayland, they really should keep support for those who have to use X11. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) By the time GTK5 appears, a vanishingly small percentage of Linux users will need X11. I run Wayland on 2009 hardware now. As toolkits abandon X11, it is going to pressure other operating systems to move to Wayland as well. FreeBSD is already moving. Even Haiku has Wayland support. So we are talking about the smaller BSDs and the Solaris derivatives. Or ancient operating systems on original hardware I guess. In which case, they can run the older apps which is likely all they can run anyway. Worst, worst case, you can run Wayland on x11. If there is something you absolutely need, I guess you can run Wayland apps on x11 that way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago* [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Hopefully Wayland does sort everything out before it releases permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) By the time GTK5 appears, a vanishingly small percentage of Linux users will need X11. I run Wayland on 2009 hardware now. As toolkits abandon X11, it is going to pressure other operating systems to move to Wayland as well. FreeBSD is already moving. Even Haiku has Wayland support. So we are talking about the smaller BSDs and the Solaris derivatives. Or ancient operating systems on original hardware I guess. In which case, they can run the older apps which is likely all they can run anyway. Worst, worst case, you can run Wayland on x11. If there is something you absolutely need, I guess you can run Wayland apps on x11 that way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago* [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Hopefully Wayland does sort everything out before it releases permalink fedilink source parent
[–] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Hopefully Wayland does sort everything out before it releases permalink fedilink source parent