Re: A call to drop gnome
On Tuesday 16 April 2019 12:54:00 Matthew Crews wrote:
> On 4/16/19 6:54 AM, Reco wrote:
> >> I see Linus is drifting back to his older style, issuing the
> >> desktop people a whipping they are in need of over the weekend,
> >> saying 90% of why linux doesn't control the desktop is that there
> >> is not a standardized, one size fits all because it can do all
> >> things desktop.
> >
> > A link please, LKML will suffice. If Linus is back after that CoC
> > story in all his former glory - I need to see this.
>
> Old news. He posted two days ago about Linux Kernel 5.1-rc5:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/14/265
>
None of those messages are related to what I read late last week.
>
> As far as Gnome on Wayland, X.org's days are numbered, and for good
> reason.
>
> The major DEs are all pushing for the move to Wayland, but they
> continue to support X because Wayland isn't fully ready. However it
> cannot be made ready unless people are actually using it in the wild,
> and submitting feedback.
>
> Additionally, every major Linux distro supports Wayland, provided
> their chosen DE supports Wayland. Some major ones even USE Wayland by
> default where possible. It will not be long before X is deprecated,
> and then fully removed.
>
> This all stems back to Synaptic being removed from Debian Buster
> right? Well, all someone needs to do is update Synaptic with proper
> Wayland support. But judging by the upstream development, it appears
> that Synaptic might be abandoned?
>
> https://launchpad.net/synaptic
>
> Well, it's maintained by an Ubuntu developer, and Ubuntu doesn't even
> ship Synaptic anymore.
>
> All the same, hardly a reason to drop Gnome.
>
> My 2¢
>
> -Matt
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