KDE Neon Makes It Easier To Now Try Plasma On Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Neon Makes It Easier To Now Try Plasma On Wayland

The Ubuntu-based KDE Neon distribution for its "dev unstable" image now comes pre-installed with the Wayland session option...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...le-Wayland-Opt

[starshipeleven]

A bright future is ahead.

[tildearrow]

Neon Dev Unstable isn't yet defaulting to the Wayland session

Didn't you say "KDE Neon Developer OS Switches To Plasma Wayland By Default" 9 months ago?

[deadite66]

any news on EGLStreams support?

[ResponseWriter]

any news on EGLStreams support?

Unlikely. https://plus.google.com/+MartinGräßl...ts/4UysVWKNWBy (see comments)

Plasma isn't quite ready on the open-source driver stack without the devs worrying about Nvidia's proprietary gubbins just yet anyway...

[starshipeleven]

any news on EGLStreams support?

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[bug77]

any news on EGLStreams support?

What more news do you need? The devs said they lack both the resources and the desire to maintain separate code paths and that's that.

[Cerberus]

KDE Neon is a nice distribution, combines Ubuntu LTS stable and well supported base with latest KDE, it is like having Kubuntu LTS with always latest KDE, anyone using KDE should consider trying it.

[Tomin]

KDE Neon developers report that the Wayland session is "pretty much ready to use", but they aren't yet defaulting to it over "some obscure graphics cards may not work with it and it’s hard to implement a detection and fallback for this."

I wonder how the Gnome guys do this. I think they just try Wayland and if it fails they load Xorg, maybe..? They use for gdm too (when possible ofc).

[starshipeleven]

I wonder how the Gnome guys do this.

Afaik it's done the usual GNOME way, devs set the default, and if it breaks it's up to the user to go and switch to xorg.