KDE KWin Introducing Item-Based Scenes For Improved Wayland Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE KWin Introducing Item-Based Scenes For Improved Wayland Support

More KDE KWin Wayland improvements are coming down the pipe...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KWin-Wayland-Item-Scenes

[chromer]

Again KDE moving forward...Thank you devs.

[chuckula]

If this means that tabs can be detached and reattached to browsers/file managers/etc. like they already could be done previously in X11 then I'm all in favor of it.

[V1tol]

I had deja vu reading this description. Oh yes, here it goes:

https://subdiff.org/blog/2021/the-windowing-revolution/

https://subdiff.org/blog/2021/window-kindergarten/

https://subdiff.org/blog/2021/curious-child/

[Alexmitter]

Honestly I am impressed how nothing they managed to do nearly nothing for 6 years and now put such a speed on the road.
I like whatever helpes the ecosystem to move away from X on Metal ASAP

[gufide]

I had deja vu reading this description. Oh yes, here it goes:

https://subdiff.org/blog/2021/the-windowing-revolution/

https://subdiff.org/blog/2021/window-kindergarten/

https://subdiff.org/blog/2021/curious-child/

Yep. Also the first thing that came to my mind, and exactly the design KWinFT's contributor was criticizing in his blog post.

I really wonder if KWinFT will keep up against KWin. I'm also in favor of simplification over addition. We'll see how it pans out.

[kiffmet]

I finally worked around all the DPI issues I had when using KDE/Wayland just to notice that GTK applications like Firefox don't export global appmenus when launched under a Wayland session. Is there anything that can be done about that?

[bug77]

Honestly I am impressed how nothing they managed to do nearly nothing for 6 years and now put such a speed on the road.
I like whatever helpes the ecosystem to move away from X on Metal ASAP

Not doing what you want doesn't mean they did nothing. They broke down the whole KDE Frameworks into smaller, more maintainable modules, instead of chasing wild geese.

[angrypie]

Honestly I am impressed how nothing they managed to do nearly nothing for 6 years and now put such a speed on the road.
I like whatever helpes the ecosystem to move away from X on Metal ASAP

GNOME had glaring performance issues and sat on their asses for years, until Canonical stepped up. The guy writing a gargantuan GJS patch right now is also a Canonical employee.

If you're going to criticize KDE for being slow, at least be coherent.

[Charlie68]

Honestly I am impressed how nothing they managed to do nearly nothing for 6 years and now put such a speed on the road.
I like whatever helpes the ecosystem to move away from X on Metal ASAP

It took them almost 10 years to create the Wayland protocol (it's just a protocol), it is not clear why the support of compositor should be faster.