GTK 4.16 Released With Vulkan GSK Renderer By Default On Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GTK 4.16 Released With Vulkan GSK Renderer By Default On Wayland

Ahead of GNOME 47's imminent release, Matthias Clasen has released GTK 4.16 as the newest exciting update to this toolkit powering GNOME software. Notable with GTK 4.16 is the GSK renderer defaulting to its Vulkan back-end when running on Wayland...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.16-Released

[mirmirmir]

It needs to be rewritten in rust to be trully perfect.

[NekoCWD]

It needs to be rewritten in rust to be trully perfect.

Blazing fast && memory safety moment

[fulalas]

Great, now GNOME will perform 2% better, which is still slower than all other DEs

[Sethox]

It needs to be rewritten in rust to be trully perfect.

As this CAN give it a boost. The undertaking for this is too great (some doesn't want to learn a new language). So why not just wait for COSMIC that just released an Alpha release, it basically has the Gnome "feel"to it too.

[loganj]

As this CAN give it a boost. The undertaking for this is too great (some doesn't want to learn a new language). So why not just wait for COSMIC that just released an Alpha release, it basically has the Gnome "feel"to it too.

thats the problem

[Azpegath]

Are there any performance/latency numbers shared related to this?

[intelfx]

Great, now GNOME will perform 2% better, which is still slower than all other DEs

Cope harder

[johanb]

Blazing fast && memory safety moment

You mean slightly slower the first years before all regressions are found and then the same speed, as well as memory safety?

[bearoso]

Great, now GNOME will perform 2% better, which is still slower than all other DEs

Base Gtk has always been quite fast, and Gtk 4 is pretty decent. It's mutter that has issues.