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GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled (www.phoronix.com)

For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support. This Mutter merge request landed today that allows compiling Mutter with X11 support disabled. That landed today along with...

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@Chewy7324 @GolfNovemberUniform I'd say as soon as screen readers work properly under Wayland, they could drop X11 builds. But they should definitely not do it before fixing that.

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@possiblylinux127 That would definitely be part of it, I assume. Does Wayland already track text rendering and its contents?

Because somehow text from any UI would need to be detected.

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@nick I don't know. I can understand both sides.

Users searching for solutions of their problems, stumbling upon a new functionality and test it out without doing what it does.

Developers specifying what it does and therefore expect people would know what they are doing.

Anyway a compromise got merged to make it more difficult for users to accidentally mess up. Which is probably good. But I don't think you need to handhold users all the time...

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