No activities support in Wayland? I do wonder how many people use kde activities though. I only recently forced myself to use them as part of workflow. It's a somewhat logical evolution of multitasking, if not immediately intuitive.
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Originally posted by Damnshock View Post
We at Fedora KDE-SIG are going to release F34 with Wayland enabled by default :-)
PS: in my humble opinion is not yet ready but... hey, it's a bleeding edge distro!
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I just gave it a try, and it's much better than 5.20. My multi-monitor setup now works great, but there are still issues: kickoff pops-up behind my sidebar (ok with X11, so the new version is not the issue) and krunner refuse to pop on the right screen (can't set a default screen and the "follow mouse" option has no effect on krunner under Wayland).
The main issue though is Firefox. It's unusable with XWayland (horrible glitches ; maybe due to the combination KWin+XWayland+GTK) and refuses to launch on Wayland (Falkon works great).
My conclusion is that there is still some work to do before Plasma being really Wayland-ready, but it's close to and already usable. I would not say the same of Firefox. Sticking to X11 for now.
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Originally posted by angrypie View Post
GNOME Wayland wasn't ready either when it shipped by default. I'd wager the reason it's 99% usable now is because people were pushed into it and reported bugs, instead of simply switching back to Xorg (of course I'm exempting NVIDIA users).
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Originally posted by ALRBP View PostI just gave it a try, and it's much better than 5.20. My multi-monitor setup now works great, but there are still issues: kickoff pops-up behind my sidebar (ok with X11, so the new version is not the issue) and krunner refuse to pop on the right screen (can't set a default screen and the "follow mouse" option has no effect on krunner under Wayland).
The main issue though is Firefox. It's unusable with XWayland (horrible glitches ; maybe due to the combination KWin+XWayland+GTK) and refuses to launch on Wayland (Falkon works great).
My conclusion is that there is still some work to do before Plasma being really Wayland-ready, but it's close to and already usable. I would not say the same of Firefox. Sticking to X11 for now.
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Originally posted by Damnshock View PostWe at Fedora KDE-SIG are going to release F34 with Wayland enabled by default :-)
Originally posted by smartalgorithm View PostYep... So if you know your users and what they like, and also all the risks, then it's a nice choice... Although i wouldn't consider such a liberal distro...
As long as the X11 session is still installed and switching session type takes only two mouse clicks in the login screen, there should be no problem. Same when Gnome switched.
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Originally posted by FireBurn View PostI have reported bugs, they aren't fixed.
On 5.21, somehow they manage to break log out on Wayland. Instead of log out, I get a crash report for every app I have open. Also, when I tried to change the window decorations (control panel said "oxygen", though they really looked like breeze), the screen went all black with weird mouse pointers all over the place.Last edited by bug77; 18 February 2021, 04:11 AM.
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Originally posted by FireBurn View Post
I have reported bugs, they aren't fixed.
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Originally posted by skierpage View PostI use Baloo to find files based on content. I get a lot of proposals and financial information in PDFs. baloosearch lets me find relevant documents across e-mails, textual files, and PDFs.
I've also used Dolphin's image search options a few times which I think are backed by Baloo.
Someone asked about Baloo's time to index. It took a few hours on my 250 GB SSD, the last time I rebuilt the index.
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