NVIDIA Working On An EGLStreams Back-End For KDE On Wayland

[starshipeleven]

I hope Nvidia is ready for KWin devs to decide to break the interface that EGLstreams depends on, every....single.....release.

It's Kwin that would depent on EGLStreams, not the other way around.

[kaprikawn]

[Big 'ol wall o' text]

Nobody cares, posting the same crap in every thread about Wayland isn't going to get you anywhere. Wayland is coming, Xorg is in the process of being taken out back and put out of it's misery. The changeover will take a while, at least a decade, but it'll happen eventually.

[duby229]

I hope Nvidia is ready for KWin devs to decide to break the interface that EGLstreams depends on, every....single.....release. Thats how open-source singles out and prevents contributions from anyone they have a beef with.

And people claim anyone can contribute to open-source if they bring the code, lol. What a joke.

That's not true at all. In fact when nVidia releases open source code that is useful it gets adopted unanimously, VDPAU being a rare example of nVidia -actually- releasing useful code.

[FireBurn]

Or to put it another way, never ascribe maliciousness to that which can be explained by incompetence.

Again what has he broken?

[FireBurn]

That's not true at all. In fact when nVidia releases open source code that is useful it gets adopted unanimously, VDPAU being a rare example of nVidia -actually- releasing useful code.

Then dropping it like a hot potato

[jpg44]

Nobody cares, posting the same crap in every thread about Wayland isn't going to get you anywhere. Wayland is coming, Xorg is in the process of being taken out back and put out of it's misery. The changeover will take a while, at least a decade, but it'll happen eventually.

Thats because the graphics stack is managed by people who don't know what they are doing. What needs to be taken out of its misery is Wayland. Its pure garbage.

[FireBurn]

Nobody cares, posting the same crap in every thread about Wayland isn't going to get you anywhere. Wayland is coming, Xorg is in the process of being taken out back and put out of it's misery. The changeover will take a while, at least a decade, but it'll happen eventually.

TL;DR

[duby229]

Yep, that was my first thought as well.

If Nvidia continues to contribute like this, I may even start buying hw from them again (in time).

What are you saying? Nvidia is writing this code because -they- caused this problem, and -does not- fix it, it only makes the problem more complicated.

[shmerl]

IMHO all should collaborate on Vulkan/WSI backend for KWin. It will work across all drivers using the same path. It's more productive and future proof than maintaining a separate path.

It was started but the effort was abandoned: https://cgit.kde.org/kwin.git/log/?h=fredrik/vulkan

[duby229]

Then dropping it like a hot potato

well, it's true that it's incapable of supporting the newest formats and features. Even nVidia dropped it.