Von: Tim Schellenberg
Has there been any talk yet about a (rough) timeline for Plasma Workspaces 2 release dates? Will it still be released simultaneously with KDE SC? Perhaps 4.12 or 4.13?
View ArticleVon: Martin Gräßlin
talked about it, some ideas and agreed on “it’s done, when it’s done”
View ArticleVon: Aaron Seigo
“Will it still be released simultaneously with KDE SC? ” There is no intention to do so. If it happens, it will be coincidental, so I doubt it will happen. Frameworks 5 will be released on its own, and...
View ArticleVon: Ian Monroe
So KWin will be the Wayland compositor? Ate plasmiods going to be out of process? Trivial to implement with Wayland. But I guess someone needs to tell the plasmoids where to go and that should be plasma.
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[...] when it was still XFree. GNOME already stated their interest in developing for Wayland and Grasslin thinks even the smaller projects will move away from X as well. Basically, Grasslin thinks...
View ArticleVon: Martin Gräßlin
Well the plan has been for years to make KWin the Wayland compositor and we have worked for that for years. The plasmoid question I don’t really understand because nobody wants to do plasmoids out of...
View ArticleVon: Aaron Seigo
“Trivial to implement with Wayland.” I’m trying to determine whether you don’t understand what Wayland does, or if you don’t understand what Plasmoids do, or if you don’t understand the meaning of the...
View ArticleVon: Ian Monroe
Aaron, I’ve worked on a Wayland compositor for a year. KDE 4 not having in-process plasmoids made sense given the technology stack. You would basically need to invent your own mini-Wayland to do to...
View ArticleVon: Martin Gräßlin
and where’s then the difference to X11? Also with X11 it is trivial to render to an X pixmap and use that in form of a QPixmap inside a QGraphicsView or QML. I do not see where Wayland would change...
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