I share this sentiment and have also withdrawn my contribution. I remember reading X is in maintenance mode, and putting countless of hours into a plug-in for it because of some people’s refusal to switch to Wayland just seems futile and a waste of effort me, especially since, as they have mentioned, there already is a ‘happy path’. With the next LTS release of Ubuntu, both Fedora and Ubuntu will be Wayland by default. That’s what, something like 80% of all desktop distros in use?
In the end it is not my money so I cannot decide, but IMO they should focus on bringing Qt and WxWidgets up to snuff with GTK gesture support. That means that as long as people are on Wayland, gestures will work ‘everywhere’.
Same here. I'm withdrawing my contribution if they're just going to short-term solutions which will lead toward slowing down the migration to Wayland. This is an irresponsible use of funds.
Qt even already has QNativeGestureEvent stuff, seems like it's only wired up on macOS for now.
Also, what really sucks about Qt is there's no kinetic scrolling in classic qt widget apps (e.g. telegram-desktop). Or there is but every app has to enable it or something??
In the end it is not my money so I cannot decide, but IMO they should focus on bringing Qt and WxWidgets up to snuff with GTK gesture support. That means that as long as people are on Wayland, gestures will work ‘everywhere’.