GTK3 Work Towards EGL X11 Support, GTK4 Vulkan Merged

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GTK3 Work Towards EGL X11 Support, GTK4 Vulkan Merged

GNOME developers continue work on the GTK4 tool-kit while GTK3 is still set to receive some improvements...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GTK3-EGL-X11-GTK4-Vulkan

[Azpegath]

Wow, that was quick. It'll be interesting to see if the Vulkan backend actually offers any performance improvements.

[boxie]

Not much of a suprise. Kwin gave up, the GDK-backend gonna put up. Kwin lack on code quality and maintainership.

Sounds like you are a fanboi - It will be interesting to see how the EGL backend goings and whether or not they run into the same bugs as KDE

[boxie]

Wow, that was quick. It'll be interesting to see if the Vulkan backend actually offers any performance improvements.

I agree! I wonder what sort of power savings might be possible...

[Necrogrinder]

For now no performance improvement.

https://youtu.be/slIhZwmMv1g

[starshipeleven]

Not much of a suprise. Kwin started first, the GDK-backend gonna trail it as usual. GDK-backend lack on code quality and maintainership, that's why they never go first on things.

BTW KDE 5.8 was just released a few months ago. A great start for long term support on KDE. Now available on most dists, including Debian.

fixed.

EDIT: fixed again.

[darkbasic]

A few weeks ago? Months would be more correct.

[cj.wijtmans]

I think i will move to gnome, they are doing good work now. KDE lack of supporting EGL/Streams and buggy plasma desktop is starting to lose my patience with it.