Yes, that 40% comes from the removal of X11 support.
I don’t know if any of that code even ran in a Wayland session, and makes a difference.
But what it does is take 40% load of the maintainers who can invest their time elsewhere now.
Fair, I just find that number super high, 40%. Is that official, or an estimate from you?
I think they just disabled the session since the last version of GNOME and now they removing the code completely, but you’re absolutely right, it is good that the devs can now move on from maintaining that old code to focusing exclusively on Wayland. I’m more excited about this update now, thank you!
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Dropping X11 seems huge.
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Removing technical debts cannot be overestimated.
Yeah forge is what I use too and it’s definitely a little clunky. PaperWM was decent last time I tried it too (but still a little clunky)
Except for removing 40% of the code base in this release.
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Is that % real? That’s impressive. Was it the removal of X11? That should make the DE feel lighter, hopefully.
GNOME has a bunch of legacy code… it’s only of the things that has me interested in Cosmic OS. That and Rust, lol.
Yes, that 40% comes from the removal of X11 support.
I don’t know if any of that code even ran in a Wayland session, and makes a difference.
But what it does is take 40% load of the maintainers who can invest their time elsewhere now.
Fair, I just find that number super high, 40%. Is that official, or an estimate from you?
I think they just disabled the session since the last version of GNOME and now they removing the code completely, but you’re absolutely right, it is good that the devs can now move on from maintaining that old code to focusing exclusively on Wayland. I’m more excited about this update now, thank you!
I remember reading it’s 40% in an article, but now I can’t find it anymore, so take it with a grain of salt.
Mosaicwm is great, even if still on early development.
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Did you ever use Material Shell?
That is likely to come now that they have removed all support for X11. Apparently the legacy code was preventing properly integrating a tiling system.