Hi Kevin, On 2022-03-08 23:01 UTC+0100, Kevin Exton wrote: > I tried Wayland some years ago now (might have been when they first > trialled it in Ubuntu) but decided not to stick with it. > > Since more desktop environments are beginning to choose Wayland as the > default display protocol, I was wondering if others think there's > significant user benefits to making the change?
I had it running for a while recently with KDE Plasma, because I wanted to try out waydroid, which only supports Wayland. My impression was, that it has improved a lot and is in a somewhat usable state, but I quickly changed back to X. I felt that programs designed for X and programs designed for Wayland don't interact well (copy/paste and so on) and Plasma support for Wayland is not as mature as for X. The worst experience was the proprietary Citrix client, which I need to use on a daily basis for my work. They say they don't support Wayland at all. Well it did somehow work but it was absolutely not satisfying (again copy/paste, alt+tab behaviour and so on). I came to the conclusion that I don't really need or want Wayland at this point of time. It might be technically better, but X does all I need these days. And I like the X forwarding feature of SSH. My biggest concern is that we will see over the next years a big division of the GUI application eco system. Some programs will stay optimised for X, some will even require Wayland, like the mentioned waydroid. Hopefully a full transparency can somehow be achieved. Regards, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de
