Re:XFCE Wayland Development Roadmap
by bandrami on Thursday September 14, 2023 @11:44AM
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Xorg, possibly, but Xenocara is an X11 implementation that is currently maintained and regularly updated. The OpenBSD team says it's largely feature-complete so there won't be new big changes, but it's getting regular commits. OpenBSD is a small userbase but it's important enough in security circles that I have trouble imagining toolkit implementors will drop support simply because some people have a weird need to delete working software.
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Work has already begun to get Wayland working on OpenBSD. With the major toolkit and DE projects removing X support in upcoming releases, even Xenocara's long-term relevance is very much in doubt.
Not really. Matthieu's done some work to almost get it usable, but if there's been any talk of ever taking it out of ports and into the base system it hasn't happened on any public mailing lists. Given that xenocara is rootless and pledged there's not really a security argument for it, and there just isn't that much interest from the team, at least not that they've expressed.
I suppose OpenBSD might not ever have a GTK5 desktop if GTK5 for whatever reason drops X11 as a target (remember they still support DirectFB) but I don't think that's really a showstopper since users seem to prefer cwm anyways.