For those of you interested in our recent video offloading / zero-copy playback work: I quickly put together some #livi#flatpak s to make it easy to test stuff already. Compositor offloading should work on all semi-recent Intel/AMD and a variety of ARM64 devices.
For those using HW that still uses the stateful V4L2 API for decoding - such as the #RaspberryPi4 - I uploaded another build to the link in the first post that includes a #GStreamer patch that is not close to landing, but works well enough to make playback work.
With that I can play 1080p30fps videos (the decoder limit) on my big screen smoothly, which otherwise not possible (apart from reducing the resolution).
Seit Donnerstag Nachmittag verbreitet mein Ex-Arbeitgeber die Ente, dass #KDE#Plasma 6 nur im #Wayland-Modus startet[1]. Mindestens seit Freitag früh gibt es einen Forenbeitrag, der das richtig stellt[2]; ein zweiter folgte drei Stunden später[3].
Bedauerlich, das alles, denn so setzen sich Faktenfehler in den Köpfen deren fest, die diese Forenbeiträge nicht gesehen haben.
Gestern kam bei mir das Update für KDE Plasma 6.0 Ich war bisher immer auf X11 unterwegs und hab mir heute gedacht, dass es tatsächlich einmal an der Zeit wäre Wayland auszuprobieren. Zumal es offenbar Fehler gibt, die mir bisher nur unter X11 aufgefallen sind. Gefällt mir ausgesprochen gut, was ich da im Moment sehe. Läuft alles schön flüssig.
Mal ein herzliches Danke an die Entwickler:innen, die an den zahlreichen Komponenten von Linux arbeiten.
I've just pushed the implementation of a GUI for calls in the CLI frontend of #Libervia
That means that you have a full-featured #Qt GUI accessible quickly from your #terminal to make or receive your #XMPP calls. Can also be useful to compensate for clients missing A/V calls.
sometimes text selection just sucks on #linuxmobile or you have an idiotic wifi password on a picture and as a legastenic adhs kid you never type it right..
I'm unable to measure this, but I could swear that under Wayland (Weston, KWin) my touchpad mouse cursor movement is delayed by about 1 frame compared to X11 (KWin). It feels like when you enable the software cursor in a game. Does anyone feel the same? 🖱️
Looks like #GNOME reports the sizes of #windows incorrectly when monitors have different scale factors. I can recreate this #bug (mobile phone video as I haven’t been able to find a way to screen capture all monitors on GNOME under #Wayland) with having first monitor, 1920×1080 at 100% (on the left) and second monitor 4K @200% with Firefox open on first, Extensions open on second. Click on Settings for any extension. Click on Firefox. Watch the settings modal resize.
#KdeEcoTest is an automation and testing tool. It is used for creating usage scenario scripts to measure the #energy consumption of software.
Season of #KDE contributor Athul Raj K has added #Wayland support to the tool. Now it is possible to compare the energy demands of software on Wayland vs. X11!
Das Screenshot-Tool in Ubuntu 23.10 ist ja ganz ok, kann aber die Screenshots nicht bearbeiten. Also Text reinschreiben, Pfeile malen, Bereiche verpixeln, usw.. Flameshot und Shutter könnten das, funktionieren aber mit Wayland leider nicht. Kennt jemand ein kleines Tool, dass mir helfen könnte? Gimp oder Inkscape sind für diesen Zweck zu groß. #ubuntu#screenshot#wayland
On my media center PC, I often switch between 60 Hz and 24 Hz refresh rate for perfectly smooth playback. Is there a way in either KDE Plasma (Wayland) or Kodi to switch refresh rates automatically or with some kind of quick widget? I currently use the settings menu every time.
Note: It's a media center PC connected to a TV, so I won't type terminal commands.
@NathanClayton@kubikpixel#ActivityPub is certainly an overcomplicated protocol and the only reason we use it is that Mastodon does. Why couldn't we simply poll RSS feeds and receive DMs by email (like #DeltaChat)?
People have a tendency, when they design something new, to design it in a straightforward way that makes it work, but with a few rough edges and odd quirks. When they design the second version, they don't have the mindset to just make it work, since the old design already just works. They try to design something with no rough edges or quirks, which counterproductively always makes it worse than the first version as the complexity to avoid the "natural" quirks always ends up being worse than just accepting them. This happens every. single. time. It's how we got #Wayland and #systemd as well.