Better Input Device Support Is Coming To KDE's KWin On Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Better Input Device Support Is Coming To KDE's KWin On Wayland

Martin Gräßlin's latest focus on KDE development has been improving the input device support under KWin, particularly for when it's acting as a Wayland compositor...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Input-KWin-Wayland-Plasma-5.7

[edoantonioco]

What about making wayland plasma 5 to work?

[bvbfan]

Already works. Usability of Xorg is still better, but you can download Neon - wayland to try it. So With lastest DDX driver based EGL (just like Wayland's) you can't better experience on Wayland compared to Xorg, Wayland will be the future

[GreatEmerald]

Nice progress. Looks like so far it's the proprietary drivers that are lagging behind a bit.

[magika]

Nice progress. Looks like so far it's the proprietary drivers that are lagging behind a bit.

Anyone is free to add support for proprietary drivers.

[Krejzi]

Anyone is free to add support for proprietary drivers.

You mean proprietary drivers are free to add proper support for wayland compositors?

[edoantonioco]

Already works. Usability of Xorg is still better, but you can download Neon - wayland to try it. So With lastest DDX driver based EGL (just like Wayland's) you can't better experience on Wayland compared to Xorg, Wayland will be the future

that's great for people using neon, but on normal distros is where is still not working (at least on intel)

[magika]

You mean proprietary drivers are free to add proper support for wayland compositors?

No, I mean exactly what I said. You may not like proprietary drivers and the way they did things, but it is unfair to complain about them not supporting every Wayland compositor out there when Wayland is supported by the driver. And there is probably more wayland compositors already than we ever had for X.

[Hi-Angel]

Discussion seems to gone into confusion. GreatEmerald meant missing support for Wayland. If I didn't miss anything, NVidia devs last time were arguing their implementation of Wayland with devs of Weston, thus its not ready yet. Krejzi, magika drivers doesn't have to know anything about a compositor — they implement Wayland API, and compositors uses the implementation in whatever way they want.

[lunarcloud]

What about making wayland plasma 5 to work?

Why do people feel the need to tell developers what to prioritize?
He worked on it, made it (kwin, not anything else because he's the kwin guy) work. It works about as well as anything Wayland-powered does right now.
He wants to work on other areas, it's not like he's got a short list of things he could work on.
If you want to pay a developer, you then have some right to claim to be able to say what they work on.