Going all-in on a Wayland future
blogs.kde.org
Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

  • Peasley@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Damn. I guess it’s finally goodbye window shade or goodbye Plasma. I really wish they’d figured out a solution.

    I get it though. The edge cases will never be fixed until devs know what they are, and GNOME proved this is an effective way to find out. Things like Orca (screen reader for blind and visually impaired) were unusably broken when GNOME switched, but lots of bug reports later it’s mostly working (in non-flatpak apps). Plasma probably has a lot of the same work ahead

      • Peasley@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        Thanks for the link! Heartening to know there are others that love this feature like i do

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        17 days ago

        The description in the ticket isn’t too bad:

        allows users to make a window disappear and keep only its title bar visible.

        It really just hides the window contents. In effect, it is similar to minimizing a window, except that it doesn’t spring into your panel and rather stays in place as just the window title bar without the contents.

        It is a niche feature, if you couldn’t tell. But it isn’t some KDE specialty feature; various other desktops and window managers also support it. I think, it was more popular in the early days of graphical user interfaces, when we were still working out, how we want to do panels and such.

        And conversely, I do think it makes more sense as a feature on big screens like you can have today, where your panel might be quite a bit away.
        Don’t think, window shading will make a big comeback just yet, but yeah, probably enough existing users that use it, so that it would be cool to support that workflow.

    • majster@lemmy.zip
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      17 days ago

      labwc has it :) I use it with XFCE, integration is pretty rough but will hopefully get there over time. No crashes so far!