KDE Plasma 5.8 To Finally Allow LLVMpipe, Drops EGL On X11 Option

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Plasma 5.8 To Finally Allow LLVMpipe, Drops EGL On X11 Option

There are several changes to KWin's OpenGL compositor support with the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.8 release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Plasma-5.8-OpenGL-Render

[Azrael5]

how long for full wayland operational!?

[devius]

...instead KDE developers want the games to specify to block the compositing...

I'm sure that will work just fine...

[murraytony]

I'm sure that will work just fine...

Hmm, I have the same thoughts. I'm sure you can still specifically disable compositing for individual windows/games through Kwin configuration. Just more manual then the blanket option.

[dungeon]

I think Catalyst will fix their bugs somewhere in future of the past

[schmidtbag]

how long for full wayland operational!?

Yeah I'm wondering this too. I try out wayland every time and it's steadily been improving but not all of my problems are sorted out.

Nice to see that LLVMpipe is supported though.

[devius]

I'm sure you can still specifically disable compositing for individual windows/games through Kwin configuration. Just more manual then the blanket option.

Apparently there's this, but this decision still seems like a step in the wrong direction to me.

[elvenbone]

Why did they take the GNOME-way with EGL?
Configurability is why I (and I guess most other users) use KDE Plasma.

The proper way would have been to leave the GLX/EGL-Choice in the Compositor-Settings-GUI, but display a warning when EGL is selected.
I had zero problems with EGL, and now I don't even know what my system uses without looking up something like 'cat /var/log/X.org.0.log | grep GLX [or EGL]'.

[starshipeleven]

The proper way would have been to leave the GLX/EGL-Choice in the Compositor-Settings-GUI, but display a warning when EGL is selected.
I had zero problems with EGL, and now I don't even know what my system uses without looking up something like 'cat /var/log/X.org.0.log | grep GLX [or EGL]'.

The warning is there already.

[Awesomeness]

Apparently there's this, but this decision still seems like a step in the wrong direction to me.

The right direction is to bug game makers to fix their game to properly block compositing.