KDE's KWin Compositor Sees Near Total Rewrite Of Compositing Code.

[andreduartesp]

Now this is the kind of stuff that makes me tempted to give KDE another try, I remember having a lot of issues with it's compositor in the past, it being one of the key reasons why I could never stick with it.

You know you can use any window manager with Plasma Desktop at X environment, right?

[Schmellow]

Is this incorporating any code or general concepts from the Wayland KwinFT fork?

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...DE-KWin-Forked

I think it's safe to assume Roman's work will never get back to upstream. The context of separation leaves very little hope that will ever happen.
I wonder what he will do now, kwin and kwinft codebases were already diverging fast, due to pretty high MR churn in upstream.
Should have swallowed his pride IMO

[Nth_man]

Two reasons.
1. Because that is how open source works. If you feel that something needs changed you have the ability to do that. You might be lacking a programming skill or knowledge of the project but there is nothing in your way but you from learning and fixing what you think needs fixed. With a closed project, you don't have the ability to make changes no matter how simple.

2. You can think of the open source projects like someone cooking a meal for you. They work hard in the kitchen to make you a seven course meal and you feel that it isn't quite up to your standards. [...]

Also, as it was already written, there are other ways. For example, Edward Snowden recently asked for donations to the EFF (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/1...-broken-system), for Libreoffice you can use [crowdfunding](https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Crowdfunding) to setup a bug bounty, etc.

[timofonic]

What about using Disman instead duplicating code again and again?

[mikus]

Here's to hope for some stability finally in kwin compositing in multi-monitor without rebooting every few days after only 10 years or so.

[tildearrow]

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/502

Isn't this essentially unredirection support?

Problem is that it is only for Wayland.

[Baguy]

It means I would have to rename the thing to something like kwin-unredirect, and keep it up until they bring full-screen unredirection back...

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/502

Isn't this essentially unredirection support?

[schmidtbag]

So why not just write it properly for the first time? People say the Linux world is full of duplicate work. This is the duplication of duplicate work.

[ResponseWriter]

Hopefully this brings some much needed stability to the Wayland session as well. I mean the ability to reliably resize Xwayland windows or drag an image in Gwenview and not be kicked back to a login screen. Otherwise the Wayland session can be very nice.

[tildearrow]

I'm curious if that rewrite will make tildearrow s kwin-lowlatency unnecessary (i guess he will be relieved to have this work being "over" if that is true? ^^)

It means I would have to rename the thing to something like kwin-unredirect, and keep it up until they bring full-screen unredirection back...