KDE

5513 readers

100 users here now

KDE is an international technology team creating user-friendly free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. KDE’s software runs on GNU/Linux, BSD and other operating systems, including Windows.

Plasma 6 Bugs

If you encounter a bug, proceed to https://bugs.kde.org/, check whether it has been reported.

If it hasn't, report it yourself.

PLEASE THINK CAREFULLY BEFORE POSTING HERE.

Developers do not look for reports on social media, so they will not see it and all it does is clutter up the feed.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

carlschwan@lemmy.kde.social

Bro666@lemmy.kde.social

Aniqakhokhar@lemmy.kde.social

herzenschein@pawb.social

So let’s talk about this Wayland thing (pointieststick.com)

submitted 1 year ago by n1729@lemmy.world to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

53 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite a bit lately with the announcement that Fedora KDE is proposing to drop the Plasma X11 session for version 40 and only ship the Plasma Wayland session. I’ve read a lot of nervousness and fear about it lately. So today, let’s talk about it!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] nora@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It does for me. For some reason my touchpad has really high scroll sensitivity with libinput. It's borderline unusable. The only desktop environment that exposes the ability to change this sensitivity is plasma Wayland. AFAIK there's technical reasons it can't be done on xorg without hacky workarounds. This is the killer feature for me.

In addition both plasma and gnome only have 1:1 touchpad gestures on their Wayland sessions. Obviously I could use third party tools for trackpad gestures under x11 but those aren't 1:1.

Also while I'm aware that fractional scaling on Wayland is a mess and hacky but I still find the fractional scaling implementation on KDE Wayland to be the best, followed by KDE on xorg. I need fractional scaling for things to be appropriate sizes on my laptop screen.

For my desktop I still use x11 because of nvidia but I would definitely benefit from the multi monitor improvements under Wayland since I have two monitors of differing refresh rates and it causes issues.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congrats, you're the 1%.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nope, I also use it for many of these things. They're not alone by a long shot.

If you want to continue to use X11, you are free to simply not update your machine any further. It's unlikely you value security, so this shouldn't be an issue for you.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 0 points 1 year ago

You clearly don't understand what 1% is. Do you think it means it just one person?

And you're equally clueless about my entire argument here.