Re: KiCad and Wayland

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: KiCad and Wayland
Date	2025-06-18 05:30 +0000
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John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> wrote at 01:50 this Tuesday (GMT):
> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/
>> 
><snip>
>> 
>> KiCad uses wxWidgets, where the 'x' means X11 and is cross-platform. It 
>> would be ironical if Windows becomes a better OS than Fedora or Ubuntu for 
>> electronics design.
>
> Interesting, IIRC BOINC Manager on Linux also uses wxWidgets,
> so I guess people needing that could be out if luck.

And there goes any chance I'm migrating to Wayland.

>> For a while QGIS had a banner alerting users that dialogs might not 
>> function correctly on Wayland but they seem to have overcome the problem. 
>> Because of its nature KiCad may face greater difficulty.
>> 
>> fwiw, I haven't tried but I doubt our legacy software would do well with 
>> Wayland. Like KiCad it uses window control and IPC features that Wayland 
>> specifically removed.
>
> Yes, looks that way to me too :(


Which sucks, since SOME COMPANIES are really pushing Wayland. I'm going
to hold out on X11 for as long as I can.
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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KiCad and Wayland rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-16 19:25 +0000
  Re: KiCad and Wayland John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-06-17 01:50 +0000
    Re: KiCad and Wayland rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-17 04:46 +0000
      Re: KiCad and Wayland John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-06-17 08:46 -0700
        Re: KiCad and Wayland Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-07-05 09:18 +0000
    Re: KiCad and Wayland candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-06-18 05:30 +0000
  Re: KiCad and Wayland Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-06-17 04:02 +0000

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