Qt 6.5 Adding Wayland Native Interface

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Qt 6.5 Adding Wayland Native Interface

The Qt6 toolkit introduced the notion of platform-specific objects via the QNativeInterface namespace and now set to come with Qt 6.5 is support for a Wayland native interface for application developers wanting to interact directly with Wayland object handles...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.5-Wayland-Native-Interface

[Zeioth]

QT is getting pretty good.

[chromer]

Easier path for KDE 6 !

[luno]

removal of Qt X11 Extras is pretty nice ,hope they allow completely disabling X11 for Wayland only Apps

[Danny3]

Great!
Now do something about Vulkan support!
I wonder how lightweight and optimized KDE Plasma would be with Vulkan support?
As now, at least on Wayland with Intel GPUs seems kinda slow.

[ClosedSource]

I've written networking tools in Qt in the past (headless). It's very tolerable if you are required to write C++ code.

[cl333r]

Great!
Now do something about Vulkan support!
I wonder how lightweight and optimized KDE Plasma would be with Vulkan support?
As now, at least on Wayland with Intel GPUs seems kinda slow.

IIRC you can't use a different Video Card (vkPhysicalDevice) besides the one chosen by default by Qt5, because under the hood Qt does the VK initialization and this option isn't available.

I recall writing a few custom functions going on a little different initialization path to allow choosing the physical device myself. Maybe by now it's an option, I don't follow.

[nox86]

I wonder how lightweight and optimized KDE Plasma would be with Vulkan support?

Exactly! But first we need to achieve lightweight then optimize and then make it stable... and only the we can try Vulkan.
KDE is really great DE, will be with stability optimisation... And Vulkan of course

[DanL]

QT is getting pretty good.

Quicktime sucks. Oh, you meant Qt?

[oleid]

I've written networking tools in Qt in the past (headless). It's very tolerable if you are required to write C++ code.

I once wrote a cli tool which was supposed to create PDF files. It worked well, until I tried to run it on a headless machine. It turned out in order to print you needed a QApplication object, which requires a DISPLAY. Well, in the end I reworked the tool to Cairo and that worked well xD