Gnome continues its work for the complete adoption of Wayland
wayland, graphical server protocol Without a doubt, in recent years it has gained a lot of ground and has improved by leaps and bounds, and although several Linux distributions have opted for this protocol, dependency on X11 is still a requirement today.
Among the different Linux projects and references that have made the leap to Wayland and have been working to eliminate dependencies with X11, we can find, for example, Fedora, Gnome, KDE, and also Ubuntu at the time with Unity, among others.
The reason for talking about it is that a few days ago a member of the launch team and quality control Gnome released a request for change for delete the systemd target files of the package gnome-session which are used to run in X11 environments.
Various changes have already been implemented in Gnome in favor of the use of Wayland, but it should be noted that This is the first step towards dropping support for the X11 protocol in Gnome. However, it is mentioned that at the current stage, the remaining functionality required to run an X11 session remains in effect.
Despite this, Gnome developers have mentioned that functionality with X11 is scheduled to be removed in the next development cycle for and users can revert to X11 support by manually adding systemd target files.
The reason for making the changes is that developers are testing X11 less and less. The Wayland protocol-based session has been the default in GNOME since 2016, and some developers say it's time to get rid of the X11 session entirely and focus on supporting only Wayland.
Although this is just a proposal, it seems that the majority of developers are not degraded by the request, but as in any community, there are two sides of the face and for their part Joshua Stroble, a key developer of the Budgie user environment, opposed the removal of X11 support from gnome-session.
Joshua Strobl's opposition is logical, since projects like Budgie Desktop and Pantheon Desktop are based on Gnome technologies, and although they are on their way to moving to Wayland, they still have dependencies and are currently only fully compatible with X11, for So if X11 support is removed from gnome-session, it mentions that they will have to maintain their own forks of this component.
On the other hand, and taking advantage of this space in which we are talking about Gnome, we also worth mentioning which the Gnome Foundation, which oversees the development of Gnome, announced in an announcement the naming of Holly Million for the position of executive director, which had been vacant since August last year following the departure of Neil McGovern.
Of course, I wouldn't expect gnome-session to maintain this until the end of time, but within the next Gnome cycle, for example, it seems pretty early for this to happen, and at least we Budgies would like to avoid having than forking another Gnome component and spending development effort that could otherwise be put into things like Wayland just to ensure that our users on a wide range of operating systems with different release cycles are not negatively affected by this removal.
The Executive Director is responsible for the management and development of the Gnome Foundation as an organization, as well as interaction with the Board of Directors, the Advisory Council, and members of the organization.
It is mentioned that Holly Million has extensive experience managing non-profit organizations and is a diverse and passionate person who has distinguished herself as a documentary producer, writer, herbalist, artist, and educator.
Holly has gone from a non-profit consultant to development director, board member of several organizations, executive director of the BioBricks Foundation, which develops open projects in the field of biotechnologies, and founder of Artists United, which unites artists and art lovers, promoting the idea that through Learning to appreciate art many social problems can be solved.
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