Re:GTK 5 might drop X11 support
by phkahler on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @05:53PM
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Gnome will continue supporting X apps via xWayland. GTK3 and GTK4 apps will always work on both. Anyone building a new app should not be writing for X at this point (its deprecated) so there is no need for X support in a future toolkit.
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> Anyone building a new app should not be writing for X at this point (its deprecated).
Did I miss an announcement or something? Last time I checked X was not deprecated.
How would you even deprecate a protocol? Is HTTP/1.1 also deprecated?
Re:GTK 5 might drop X11 support
by zerocrates on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:10PM
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I mean I guess you deprecate a protocol by having the implementations tell people to stop using it, then they stop supporting it.
SSLv2 and SSLv3 are surely deprecated protocols, no?
>> Did I miss an announcement or something?
Apparently.
>> Last time I checked X was not deprecated.
Well now you know. Feel free to check again.
Re:GTK 5 might drop X11 support
by mmcdermott on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:08PM
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If X11 is well and truly on the way out by then, I'll be all for GTK5 dropping X11 support. It doesn't seem like much of the world beyond Gnome is on Wayland but GTK is everywhere. If that remains the case, a Wayland only GTK (that didn't accept X11 patches) would probably result in a massive fork.
I generally use Gnome on my Linux laptop. I often find myself switching it to be Gnome on X rather than Gnome on Wayland. This isn't based on any explicit preference (I genuinely don't care), but I usually encounter some glitchiness that goes away when I take Wayland out of the picture.