In light of Plasma 6.8 looking to go Wayland-exclusive and retire their X11 session support, SonicDE (formerly “KDE-Lite”) is getting off the ground as a fork of the relevant X11 support within the KDE desktop.

SonicDE has been getting established over the past two months with a goal of preserving and improving the X11-specific code within the KDE desktop. This community-based desktop environment currently includes “sonic-win” as an X11-only lightweight fork of the KWin code, sonic-workspace as a fork of KDE Plasma Workspace, silver-sddm for the display manager code, and related bits.