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Subject: Re: KiCad and Wayland
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 05:30:07 -0000 (UTC)
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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.
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