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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by smoldesu on Sunday July 03, 2022 @11:03PM (#31973081)
> Who's to say Qt won't drop X11 functionality also?

Corporate users. There's zero incentive to cut functionality out of a commercial library, so they'll probably gladly support Xorg until their customers stop paying for it.

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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by eliaspro on Monday July 04, 2022 @01:38AM (#31973794)
Their big corporate users (mostly automotive) are on Wayland since ages, which is far easier for them than for a regular desktop user as they have a very narrow feature-set to support and have full control over what's required.
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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by smoldesu on Monday July 04, 2022 @02:37PM (#31980405)
I think you grossly misunderstand who's paying for the Qt library.
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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by Crysstalis on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @03:32PM (#31992652)
Obviously it's not anyone who is willing to pay for maintenance of the X server and all the X libraries. If those stagnate and become broken, then they will likely remove the X backend.
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