XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last Release

Re:XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last Release by prmoustache on Thursday August 20, 2026 @12:54AM (#49370506)

You can't condemn a protocol because there are bad or buggy implementations.

HTML5 was not shitty because internet explorer was a shitty browser.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last Release by panzi on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:29AM (#49376032)

I don't condemn the protocol. I specifically mention the buggy implementation. I say that I use X11 because KDE's Wayland implementation is so buggy.

I want to use KDE. KDE was perfect for me before Wayland. I don't criticize Wayland here, I criticize KDE Wayland. And I'm worried because very soon KDE will delete X11 support.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last Release by einpoklum on Friday August 21, 2026 @04:51AM (#49385497)

But you can condemn the organization and people pushing for the deprecation and abandonment of another protocol, when the alternative one (Wayland) has nowhere near the level and quality of support and breadth of capabilities as the existing one. GP puts the blame on KDE - and it would be partially their responsibility if they were to drop X11, for sure, but the underlying initiative is RedHat/IBM's.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last Release by ChocolateGod on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:17AM (#49388472)

What is Wayland as a protocol missing?

[ Parent | on HN ]