KWinFT 5.24 Released - Continues To Advance Its Wayland Support, Expand On Wlroots

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KWinFT 5.24 Released - Continues To Advance Its Wayland Support, Expand On Wlroots

Along with yesterday marking the release of KDE Plasma 5.24, KWinFT 5.24 debuted as the newest version of this KWin compositor fork that continues focusing on providing Wayland support, new features, and modernizing the codebase...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KWinFT-5.24-Released

[tildearrow]

I think I'm about to give up on KWin-lowlatency - no more time to maintain it...

[romangg]

I think I'm about to give up on KWin-lowlatency - no more time to maintain it...

If you're interested in merging the unredirect mode that KWin-lowlatency provides into KWinFT let me know. I would be happy to help. While the focus for the future is of course Wayland I've the rendering code paths of X and Wayland now as much separated inside KWinFT that I don't think it would be a huge effort to get this X11 feature in and maintain it afterwards.

[RejectModernity]

Tried kwinft 5.23 and my experience was... black screen and then login screen. I hope it's gonna be ok in 5.24. Manjaro btw.

[Steffo]

Nothing against KWinFT and against the maintainer Roman, but I regularly have the impression, he is in a personal war against the KDE community. Not sure what this is good for. Nobody is benefiting from that.

Still as of now the effect is missing in KWinFT, and that is sad, because it looks like a pretty cool effect. From what I've seen it is a direct copy of Gnome's overview, so not very innovative, but let's not kid ourselves, the innovative times of the KDE Community are long in the past, so why not copy something from people with more of that.

[Quackdoc]

i've been meaning to try it, is it a drop in replacement when using the AUR? and does it support gpu hotswap I wonder?

[Kver]

Nothing against KWinFT and against the maintainer Roman, but I regularly have the impression, he is in a personal war against the KDE community. Not sure what this is good for. Nobody is benefiting from that.

I hear ya. I like Roman, solid developer, friendly in person... But comments like "Let's not kid ourselves, the innovative times of the KDE Community are long in the past, so why not copy something from people with more of that" is a nasty little thing to say. Instead of working with the community he's drawing a clear line between himself and everyone else, and because of that KwinFT has a ceiling to its possible success. I can only think of the saying "Someone who travels alone travels fastest, but people who travel together travel farthest."

[Beherit]

I think I'm about to give up on KWin-lowlatency - no more time to maintain it...

Please don't.

I really like the creamy smoothiness of kwin-lowlatency that it offers in x11 mode. And also, more importantly, it's been rock solid for me and doesn't crash more often when compared to the conventional KWin.

Plasma crashes for me as soon as I try to run several Steam games in fullscreen mode. KWin and KWin-lowlatency don't.

[aufkrawall]

Plasma crashes for me as soon as I try to run several Steam games in fullscreen mode.

Obviously, that is not expected. Ideally you should pin this down to what might cause it and file a report.

[Beherit]

Obviously, that is not expected. Ideally you should pin this down to what might cause it and file a report.

Agreed. Will do once I have the time, hopefully this weekend.