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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by dekhn on Sunday July 03, 2022 @11:41PM (#31973281)
Qts design supports many window targets and they're not going to desupport one with millions of users.
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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by bitwize on Monday July 04, 2022 @02:18AM (#31974015)
It's an entire extra code path they have to maintain. If they could tell those millions of users "for God's sake, it's 202x, use Wayland instead" and remove that entire code path, you bet your ass they will.
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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by dekhn on Monday July 04, 2022 @06:28PM (#31982384)
Since they've written all the tests already and have many billions of hours of execution, that sounds unlikely. And if you look at the history of how QT has supported things it seems very improbable. I would expect QT to support x11 for another 20 years.
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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by bitwize on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:26PM (#32016810)
I don't expect X11 to have any maintainers or contributors for another 20 years...
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