KWinFT: KDE's KWin Forked To Focus On Better Wayland Support, Modern Technologies

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KWinFT: KDE's KWin Forked To Focus On Better Wayland Support, Modern Technologies

Longtime KDE developer and former Blue Systems engineer, Roman Gilg, has announced his forking of KDE's KWin window manager / compositor and the subsequent first release of this new KWinFT project...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KWinFT-KDE-KWin-Forked

[sl1pkn07]

ok, great, but, compatible with Nvidia drivers (eglstreams)?

[tildearrow]

Oh wow. Time to kill my project already?

[lectrode]

Looks like the dev is already working with Manjaro distro devs to make it easily/quickly accessible.

[mppix]

ok, great, but, compatible with Nvidia drivers (eglstreams)?

Gnome has been working on this since quite some time and it is sill more or less in alpha status. Seems nontrivial..

https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/NVIDIA

[andyprough]

Looks like the dev is already working with Manjaro distro devs to make it easily/quickly accessible.

haagch has a PKGBUILD up on AUR. Depends on kscreenlocker-git, but should install on a normal plasma desktop otherwise. I may have to check this out on Artix, although my graphics needs are so minimal that I have no complaints about Xorg right now.

[fuzz]

Will there be kwinft-lowlatency?

[k1l_]

I still remember back then, when Kwin guys were lying that wayland is production ready already and mir was just nonsense to boost canonicals ego and capitalism.

[Britoid]

I still remember back then, when Kwin guys were lying that wayland is production ready already and mir was just nonsense to boost canonicals ego and capitalism.

Wayland is a protocol, it's been "ready" as a protocol for ages.
Mir is a display server, that purposely didn't implement the Wayland protocol, and Canonicals reasoning was shit.

[qarium]

i think the biggest question is: will KWinFT have a CLA or not?

in my view they should not.