Changes/sericea-xorgless

Sericea SDDM Wayland

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

Summary

At the moment Sericea (and Sway Spin) use sddm-x11. This proposal is to move them to sddm-wayland-generic.

Owner

• Name: Aleksei Bavshin, Fabio Alessandro Locati, Sway SIG
  • Primary contact person: Fabio Alessandro Locati
• Email: fale@fedoraproject.org

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora Linux 39
• Last updated: 2023-06-15
• [<will be assigned by the Wrangler> devel thread]
• FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

When we started working on F38 we were not fully convinced on the stability of SDDM-Wayland, so I opted for the safer bet: SDDM-X11. Though, since Sway is Wayland-only, it would make sense for Sericea and Sway Spin to prefer, and in future limit to, Waylnad.

Feedback

So far only positive feedback have been provided on this idea.

Benefit to Fedora

This change will:

• improve the user experience on Sericea and Sway Spin login
• move Sericea and Sway Spin closer to an X11-free future

Scope

• Proposal owners: change the default in comps

• Other developers: N/A

• Release engineering: N/A

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Alignment with Community Initiatives: N/A

Upgrade/compatibility impact

When the users will update their Fedora installation, the change will occur in their boxes automatically. No direct impact nor configuration change is required.

How To Test

1. Install sddm-wayland-generic 2. Reboot and test the login

User Experience

sddm-wayland-generic should have a slightly positive experience for users, with less bugs in some edge cases than sddm-x11. Majority of users should not be able to notice the difference.

Dependencies

N/A

Contingency Plan

If unexpected issues will be created by this change, we can easily rollback to sddm-x11 by changing back the comps packages.

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)