[e-users] Is there a roadmap for Wayland compliance?

[email protected] Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:39:03 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.enlightenment.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

First before I ask I don't have any expectations about Wayland 
compliance in Enlightenment nor do I currently need or use Wayland. As 
someone who is Distributing Enlightenment in a Distribution naturally I 
am getting questions about Enlightenment and Wayland and since I am 
arms-length from the development side of Enlightenment I thought I would 
ask here. I am based on Debian's stable releases and I use the build 
toolchain of MX Linux so the current view from here is that in Debian 
X11 is not going away any time in the near future but tellingly Gnome 
and KDE now have default Wayland sessions as of the recent Trixie 
release so it seems as other DE's like XFCE4 and LXQt continue to work 
toward full Wayland compliance there will be less and less impetus for 
Debian to continue with X11 in the more distant future. I see the 
Enlightenment web site refers to Wayland support as 'moving toward' and 
'eventual'.

Is there some sort of more detailed roadmap in completing Wayland 
compliance in Enlightenment or is the plan to wait and see if other 
potential solutions like XLibre's fork of X11 or Wayback's support of 
X11 DE's on Wayland come to fruition in the next few years? Let me 
reiterate I don't have a dog in this fight at all, Enlightenment is 
working great on X11 at the present time. I just thought I would ask 
what the official party line was on a Wayland roadmap.

Thanks for reading,
Glen MacArthur - AV Linux Maintainer

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