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

[Nyall Dawson]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 at 04:14, Greg Troxel via QGIS-User <
qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

>
> The QEP, in the Conversation and in the text, still calls X11 legacy and
> talks about "transition" as if that's agreed on by everyone and a good
> thing.  I would really appreciate it if that text could be neutral and
> not sound like wayland marketing text.  As it stands I am -1 (I know I
> don't have a vote and that's ok) on the QEP as I see not supporting
> propaganda as a big deal.
>

Ok, I've replaced "legacy" with "mature". 👍


> An approach to color picker might be to have a color receiving API, and
> say that Wayland people can write a color picker that sends to it, which
> qgis could launch.


That's basically what the freedesktop "PickColor" portal is. It's just very
limited compared with the current QGIS functionality.

>
>
> From the packaging viewpoint, none of this bothers me if it doesn't
> degrade QGIS running on X11.  Wayland is gradually arriving in pkgsrc,
>

I definitely won't be breaking any X11 functionality. I plan on sticking
with X11 myself for as long as possible (i.e. plasma 7), or until Wayland
is at feature parity with it.

Nyall


with really really zero discussion of removing X11, so I may be able to
> try it in the not too distant future.
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