Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

[Jonathan Dowland]

Hi Michael,

Thank you for sharing your take.

On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 11:21:22AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>Then there is the case, that I sometimes need to use software like
>teamviewer (I know, bad proprietary software), which is not Wayland
>ready. I need something cross-plattform though, and I'm not aware of
>another solution which runs on top of Wayland.

I think we should have some sympathy towards users of non-free software
on top of Debian, even if we aren't packaging it. Pragmatically many of
our users rely on it or want it. E.g. NVIDIA driver users, Google Chrome,
Steam… and IMHO we further our goals if we are sensitive to their needs
rather than making life harder for them.

>Incidentally, I was the one responsible for switching back the default
>to Xorg in stretch and the main reasons which guided my decision back
>then mostly still apply today.

I thought you might have been, I started reading the git log of some
packages to try and figure out what patch would need to be written, I
saw your name in (I think) gdm3 (I haven't yet come up with a working
patch but this gave me some clues thank you)

>That said, I'm no longer an active GNOME team member and haven't really
>done any GNOME related work during the buster development cycle.

I hadn't realised you were no longer active in the GNOME team. I hope
you are still active in Debian :-) I've always enjoyed interacting with
you (and you may not remember but I think we met at DebConf '07)

>And I'm convinced, that the people doing the work should decide.

Mostly agree :-)

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