Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

KDE Akademy 2021 Video Streams As Developers Discuss Wayland, Frameworks 6, Qt

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • KDE Akademy 2021 Video Streams As Developers Discuss Wayland, Frameworks 6, Qt

    Phoronix: KDE Akademy 2021 Video Streams As Developers Discuss Wayland, Frameworks 6, Qt

    The virtual KDE Akademy 2021 conference kicked off on Friday and runs through the 25th. This annual summertime event of the KDE desktop community is attended by hundreds but again carried out online due to the pandemic...

    Phoronix, Linux Hardware Reviews, Linux hardware benchmarks, Linux server benchmarks, Linux benchmarking, Desktop Linux, Linux performance, Open Source graphics, Linux How To, Ubuntu benchmarks, Ubuntu hardware, Phoronix Test Suite

  • #2
    Really liked the Wayland for QT Developers talk (~2:58:00).
    In 3:00:20 David shortly talks about a new experimental Firefox Wayland backend that defers composting work to the Wayland compositor instead of having an internal one that just sends the final result (what most apps/toolkits on X11/Wayland normally do so far). If anyone is interested in that work: it can be followed in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617498 and tested via `gfx.webrender.compositor.force-enabled` in `about:config` - you'll most likely want to run FF nightly and a very recent compositor though.

    This work allows the FF Wayland to catch up with the CoreAnimation/DirectComposition ones on other OSs - and it's something that's unfortunately not possible on X11 due to missing atomicity in many areas.

    Comment


    • #3
      Originally posted by 144Hz
      First KDE comes strong against Qt’s commercial-only strategy. Forks and “legal actions” are on the table. Then KDE suddenly do their own CLA-only patchset. Then KDE also signs up for a shared conference with Qt.

      Why?
      Because you live in different reality from the rest of us, so stop trying to apply your "logic" to the rest of us.

      Comment


      • #4
        there more than 5 years when when wayland add Presentation time protocol support

        and KDE is the only one that doesn't support it

        Comment


        • #5
          Originally posted by treba View Post
          Really liked the Wayland for QT Developers talk (~2:58:00).
          ...tested via `gfx.webrender.compositor.force-enabled` in `about:config` - you'll most likely want to run FF nightly and a very recent compositor though.
          I've been using it on Ubuntu 21.04 with Firefox 89.0.1 on a system with Radeon 6800 graphics, and a second one with Intel Broadwell graphics, and it's been fantastic. No stability issues whatsoever.

          Comment


          • #6
            Originally posted by krzyzowiec View Post
            I've been using it on Ubuntu 21.04 with Firefox 89.0.1 on a system with Radeon 6800 graphics, and a second one with Intel Broadwell graphics, and it's been fantastic. No stability issues whatsoever.
            Unfortunately the setting does not have any effect in 89 on Linux/Wayland. It is already available, but only works on Win/MacOS. Only from 90 on it actually does something - and only in 91/nightly it seems to work reliably (it's still very new code so experiences may vary).

            Comment


            • #7
              Originally posted by treba
              Unfortunately the setting does not have any effect in 89 on Linux/Wayland. It is already available, but only works on Win/MacOS. Only from 90 on it actually does something - and only in 91/nightly it seems to work reliably (it's still very new code so experiences may vary).
              Ah, that would explain the stability.

              At least Firefox works well under Wayland so far. I’ll see what happens when I’m on 90.

              Comment

              Working...
              X