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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: F34 Change proposal: Wayland by Default for KDE Plasma Desktop (System-Wide Change)
From:       Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler () chello ! at>
Date:       2020-09-13 22:46:11
Message-ID: rjm7fk$6cn$1 () ciao ! gmane ! io
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Ben Cotton wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefaultForPlasma
> 
> == Summary ==
> Change the default session selection in SDDM to prefer the
> Wayland-based KDE Plasma Desktop session over the X11-based one.
> 
> == Owner ==
> * Name: [[User:Ngompa|Neal Gompa]], [[User:Rdieter|Rex Dieter]],
> [[User:Jgrulich|Jan Grulich]]
> * Email: ngompa13@gmail.com, rdieter@gmail.com, jgrulich@redhat.com
> * Product: KDE Spin
> * Responsible WG: KDE SIG
> 
> == Detailed Description ==
> 
> With KDE Plasma 5.20, the KDE Plasma desktop environment has reached a
> point where nearly all commonly used features in the desktop and all
> major applications function in the Plasma Wayland environment on all
> major GPUs (including NVIDIA with the proprietary driver). Starting
> with Plasma 5.20 in Fedora 34, we will change the default
> configuration for Wayland and X11 Plasma sessions so that Wayland is
> preferred and used by default, while permitting the X11 session to be
> selected as the alternative desktop environment option.

I do not think that Plasma on Wayland is ready for production use at this 
time. E.g., middle-click paste support is still incomplete: interoperability 
of the feature with X11 and GTK applications is not working yet. (X11 
because the XWayland parts of the middle-click feature are not yet 
implemented in KWin-Wayland, GTK because KWin supports only the final 
standardized version of the extension whereas GTK apparently still only 
implements its own pre-standard version with a differently-named namespace.) 
I believe that there are also other open issues with Plasma on Wayland.

        Kevin Kofler
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