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It seems that a few people are being misinformed about the deprecation of the X11 backend, usually because they read screeds from well-known bad faith actors.
The X11 backend being deprecated mainly means that we're not going to spend time implementing new features, like dmabuf, graphics offloading, or Vulkan support. X11 support will still exist until GTK4 is EOL, which will happen once GTK *6* is released. We're talking about a 20 years horizon, at this point…
@GTK and that's probably what you should have publicly communicated from the beginning, instead of acting like it is not a big deal.
@GTK if you don't communicate, people will not be able to tell apart what's what. You have to battle misinformation, upfront when possible. And people have warned you about this too! You're lucky there are media outlets who responsibly explained the nuance for you.
You don't have to be a fortune teller to tell that many non-programmers would misinterpret the news out of context, and yet you left the context buried in a commit message. Get off the high horse.
@CleoMenezesJr@floss.social@mks_h Let's be honest: if there were the most detailed information, people would still share false information from some clickbait they saw in a thumbnail or from some random blog.
People won't want to listen because they're already willing to find any tiny detail to justify the hate.