Tim via users writes:
Sam Varshavchik:
> Sadly, I expect that Fedora at some point will become exclusively
> Gnome and KDE, because only these stacks will support Wayland, in
> order to ditch X, and also target the same userbase. This won't
> happen anytime soon, but it will happen.
I'm still not convinced Wayland's a great idea. The old X had a ton of
features that people wanted, but Wayland doesn't. *If* they
reimplement them, how's Wayland going to be different from X? If they
don't reimplement them, why would those people want to use it?
I couldn't agree more. Wayland is a solution in search of problems. The
stated problems with X, that were the purported drivers for Wayland -- I
just can't find those problems, myself.
But it's painfully obvious that every effort is being made to ditch X in
favor of the Next Greatest Thing. It's a path well trodden by Gnome 3 and
systemd. I'm just a realist here, and I see the handwriting on the wall.
The only thing that will keep X in business is a popular widget set or a
desktop that does not get ported to Wayland. I'm keeping my fingers crossed
that xfce will be enough to keep X around. Maybe not in Fedora, but in other
distributions.