The State Of Wayland Support With KDE Frameworks 5, Plasma Next

Martin Gräßlin has written a new blog post about "KDE5" and Wayland.

The points for Phoronix readers from his blog post this morning include:

- Users are getting their hopes up about Wayland support and the initial "KDE5" release.

- The KDE Frameworks 5 support for Wayland with the first release will not be on par with the X.Org/X11 support but at least on par with KDE's Windows and OS X support.

- Applications using the KDE Frameworks 5 and not doing any X11 communication directly should seamlessly just work on Wayland.

- With Plasma Next soon to be in alpha, its initial release will likely not support Wayland in full. The first priority has been getting all of the tool-kit code ported to Qt5 and getting other items squared away.

- KWin isn't yet ready to serve as its own Wayland compositor. The KWin Wayland code is in an "experimental support stage."

- Martin concluded, "overall we can quite certainly say that the first release of Plasma Next will not support Wayland."

More comments can be found from Martin's blog.