For now, the Plasma X11 session remains in maintenance mode. That means critical issues—like login failures or major regressions—will still be addressed. However, minor bugs are unlikely to get fixes unless funded, and new X11-specific features are off the table entirely.

Gnome

First things first: Xorg isn’t being abandoned outright. It remains maintained and is receiving necessary security patches and bug fixes. However, active development has effectively halted, with most of its original contributors now focused on Wayland.

Edit - added Gnome quote effectively saying the same thing.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Even here the KDE communication is better on details. the gnome quote is less crisp on what it means by "active development" where as KDE precisely defines what will and will not be supported

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That and if you go on the gnome forums, their attitude IMO seems openly hostile to.. almost everything and everyone.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

Odds are they're doing the same thing only in theory. In practice, the picture changes - typically the KDE devs are far more willing to maintain old and marginal features and/or support benefiting only a small chunk of the userbase. While the GNOME devs are way more likely to ditch it, babble something about their design vision, then try to convince the user "ackshyually you don't need it".

(A major exception is perhaps accessibility, mentioned in the text. It isn't just the Wayland devs worried about it, but also the KDE and GNOME devs. In this regard props to all three.)

[–] stuner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Gnome and KDE are not doing the same thing.

KDE will continue to offer an X11 session for the time being:

Current status: Plasma’s X11 session continues to be maintained.

https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/21/about-plasmas-x11-session/

Gnome will disable the X11 session in the next release and then remove the code:

The most likely scenario is that all the X11 session code stays disabled by default for 49 with a planned removal for GNOME 50.

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/06/08/the-x11-session-removal/