The State of GNOME 40's Threaded Input

[carewolf]

Anyone know how KDE handle this matter?

By not blocking the main thread.

[aufkrawall]

Yes I'm back on X which is pretty good these days, but outside of the cursor issues, Wayland is basically usable for me. I just can't use Wayland with the cursor freezing under load. It looks like garbage and completely kills the experience.

It's not just the cursor, also games with high GPU load stutter badly.

[eydee]

Critical features still being implemented? So why isn't it still in alpha stage? The pure definition of alpha is not being feature complete.

[curfew]

Just don't use wayland, it's nowhere near usable despite what others might say.

While this is true for most DEs out there, Gnome is a few steps ahead. I would go as far as to say that there are no showstoppers unless somewhat degraded performance is one for you personally. At least if you mostly run GTK-based software and don't intent to run e.g. KDE apps on the side. My only daily non-native apps are Firefox (which also runs in Wayland mode) and Atom editor (which relies on XWayland).

[lakerssuperman]

Just don't use wayland, it's nowhere near usable despite what others might say.

Yes I'm back on X which is pretty good these days, but outside of the cursor issues, Wayland is basically usable for me. I just can't use Wayland with the cursor freezing under load. It looks like garbage and completely kills the experience.

[leipero]

The blog says a fix for the freezing cursor isn't done yet and is coming in the future. Does future mean Gnome 41?

Just don't use wayland, it's nowhere near usable despite what others might say.

[MastaG]

I wish they'd squeeze some more of these merge requests, even if it could cause regressions...
Then they can just fix them before the first .1 release

[aufkrawall]

Anyone know how KDE handle this matter?

Plasma still uses old non-atomic hardware cursor interface that works the same as on Xorg (i.e. no lag and stutter).

[f0rmat]

The blog says a fix for the freezing cursor isn't done yet and is coming in the future. Does future mean Gnome 41?

I am waiting for Gnome 42. That (in the Gnome world) will be the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Now if I only knew what the question was...

[lakerssuperman]

The blog says a fix for the freezing cursor isn't done yet and is coming in the future. Does future mean Gnome 41?