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Wayland By Default in KDE

Summary

Owner

Name: Jan Grulich
Email: <jgrulich@redhat.com>
Release notes owner:

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 28
Last updated: 2018-01-15
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

We will change SDDM to use wayland by default for Plasma. We will also attempt to automatically fall back to Xorg in cases where wayland is unavailable (like nvidia). There will still be option to use Plasma session on Xorg to those who don't want to switch to Wayland yet.

Benefit to Fedora

Using Wayland instead of X gives much better basis for isolating applications from each other and the system.

Scope

Proposal owners:
- Make SDDM to use wayland session as default.
- Make sure that wayland session is working as good as X11 session and there is no big feature gap for regular user usage.

Other developers:
- Qt applications that rely on X11-specific API need to be patched to work under Wayland.

Release engineering: #Releng issue number (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed)
- List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)