Just watched this great presentation from @AdrianVovk at the @allsystemsgo conference:
youtube.com/watch?v=uCAlzx_x6r…
It covers the migration to Wayland-only, and of the @gnome session to systemd, eliminating tens of thousands of lines of ancient C code (often a quarter to a half of the codebase depending on the module) and providing more featureful session handling, including session saving and processes suspension. The remote desktop implications are interesting too.
Modernizing GNOME
https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2025-364-modernizing-gnomeGNOME has collected some very old code over the years. During the recent GNOME 49 release, we...YouTube