[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-user] Announcing QEP 419: Improved Wayland compatibility

[Greg Troxel]

Nyall Dawson via QGIS-User <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> writes:

> Over the last couple of years, most Linux distributions and desktop
> environments have been transitioning from the legacy X11 display server to
> the Wayland standard. The transition has reached a stage where many
> environments are now completely dropping support for the X11 server.

I think it's entirely appropriate for qgis to work better on wayland
because users have computers that are wayland and not X11.   But I think
we should refrain from buying into and repeating wayland propaganda.

I almost always object to the word "legacy"; it means "the standard
thing that people do now, because I have declared some shiny new thing
to be the way of the future".

My impression is that pro-wayland people are trying to remove X11 not
because that removal serves users, but because it's aligned with a
decision that they want wayland to be the only way.

So I'd rewrite

  Many GNU/Linux distributions have added Wayland as a display server,
  and some are de-supporting X11.  While qgis does not take a position
  on this, we would like qgis to work well in a Wayland environment,
  as well as continue to work well in an X11 environment.

which refrains from endorsing any particular display server approach.

> QEP 419 aims to address these limitations in the "best possible" way, given
> the (many!) constraints of Wayland.

This is a very telling comment.  It suggests that this is the usual
situation where proponents of ${SHINY_NEW_THING} are wanting others to
overlook that it fails to do some of the things that
${LONGSTANDING_USEFUL_THING} does.   Again, off topic for qgis to judge.