Red Hat Planning A Hackfest To Further Advance HDR Support On The Linux Desktop

[finalzone]

Random side note in reply to the 'Wayland vs Xorg' stuff. I recently bought a Yoga 9i tablet. Tried Ubuntu and Fedora from a liveUSB, Ubuntu supported the screen rotation out of the box, and Fedora did not... But once installed, Ubuntu didn't work either! Discovered it was because Xorg just happily detects the hardware is there for screen rotation, and Wayland does not! It just happened to be that the LiveUSB boot up of Ubuntu used Xorg, but switches to Wayland after the install...

Screen rotate extension resolves the issue. Still waiting for upstream to apply the fix on core Mutter where the regression occurred.

[leech]

Screen rotate extension resolves the issue. Still waiting for upstream to apply the fix on core Mutter where the regression occurred.

Thanks! I'll give that a shot. Their really were two things I noticed between Xorg and Wayland on the Yoga 9i; the gestures seemed to stop working (I could swipe with two fingers up and it'd maximize the window), and the transition between GDM to desktop wasn't as smooth.
Just tested the extension, and that works... unfortunately in testing, I discovered one more difference! The onscreen keyboard doesn't pop up at all in Wayland...

[RahulSundaram]

You just did a great job explaining why Linux desktop (at least on GNOME) isn't getting anywhere. Being able to upgrade a DE environment without breaking existing software is fundamental for not having a shitty user experience, which I thought GNOME cared about .

FYI, OP is incorrect here. GNOME gets rebased in RHEL to recent upstream releases quite often. Red Hat just updates any extension they ship along with the DE version bumps so there is any breakage on what they support.