KDE's KWin Working On An Advanced Tiling System

[Lanz]

KDE is just such a power-user oriented desktop environment. It feels like it is the "true" Linux desktop environment, since most of the Linux userbase is power users. Glad to see this move - definitely in the right direction.

[uwgandalf]

Nobody realizes that kde had tiling for many years and a couple of years ago they removed it?

[bug77]

Definitely something nice to have. Here's hoping it doesn't fall flat on its face on multi-monitor setups.

[Vistaus]

But but… what about the (Wayland) fixes?

[Vistaus]

If anyone wants to have a stable base system with up to date Plasma desktop on top of it, there's no better choice than Neon

openSUSE Argon is its biggest contender. Stable base like Neon, but up-to-date Plasma like Neon.

[bug77]

openSUSE Argon is its biggest contender. Stable base like Neon, but up-to-date Plasma like Neon.

I didn't know about this, this could be better than Neon. Neon is based on Ubuntu LTS, which is based on Debian, so a lot of the offered packages are really old. I think stable OpenSUSE is not that ancient.

[⤐⤐⤐⤐]

Amazing decision, one desktop environment aimed at being the de facto and universal Linux DE needs to provide features to all Linux audiences like to the conventional users, tiling users, touch screen users, accessibility assisted dependent users. The KDE project is closing the gaps usable by all the possible concurrents to attract and retain users, kudos to everyone involved.

Looking forward at how it remembers the layouts and windows mapping within it.

[ahjolinna]

openSUSE Argon is its biggest contender. Stable base like Neon, but up-to-date Plasma like Neon.

I use openSUSE Krypton (KDE-git on tumbleweed) with wayland enabled on nvidia GPU and has been works just fine for a long time (okay yes there has been some minor issues)

[caligula]

Nobody realizes that kde had tiling for many years and a couple of years ago they removed it?

That's called progress. You need to be aware of the latest DE fashion and merge / discard cool/lame features. Since KDE uses C++ and MOC, they just need 10x more manpower and time to implement these things without segfaults and memory leaks. Somewhat related: memory bugs went down on Android thanks to the switch away from the languages KDE is using, source https://security.googleblog.com/2022...ndroid-13.html

[dragorth]

That's called progress. You need to be aware of the latest DE fashion and merge / discard cool/lame features. Since KDE uses C++ and MOC, they just need 10x more manpower and time to implement these things without segfaults and memory leaks. Somewhat related: memory bugs went down on Android thanks to the switch away from the languages KDE is using, source https://security.googleblog.com/2022...ndroid-13.html

Wasn't that the percentage of bugs? This is one of those things that makes it look science like, until you realize all the caveats, such as, total number of bugs then vs now, how many bugs are actually reported vs are just ignored by the userbase or not found, how does adding Rust as part of the infrastructure suddenly fix bugs that are in C++ and etc.?

It doesn't pass the prima facia tests of a simple look and think.