I can't work out if this is a bug or a weird KDE feature:
If you open the shutdown dialog and then press the super key it stops the count down timer. It's probably a feature that I don't understand why it exists but I'd like some insight
@kwf Red Hat terms "feature development" as "full support". But "maintenance support" (ie the back half of the 10+ year life cycle) still will have sources released as they're made, even though no builds will be released. That's why we call it "end of builds" for CentOS Stream 8, and not "end of life". It's an important distinction.
@kwf It is an important distinction for contributors and derivatives, but not necessarily users. But there's only one website to serve all those audiences.
The saga of GNOME DRM Leasing is fun
> ACK let's implement it
> No we're not implementing we never agreed to do so
> Valve should come up with something better
> Lets implement a portal
> Lets not
> Lets implement a Dbus service
> Lets not
> Lets implement the protocol actually
People don't use Ubuntu non-LTS enough to matter (assuming it lands)
We don't know if it'll land, since the MR was made by someone completely new to the Mutter project, which means there are likely to be lots of iterations before it's mergeable.
It'll take time, and nobody knows when if it will land, and if it does, when.
@BrodieOnLinux@acidiclight It's not quite that simple, actually. There's another piece of the issue: KWin needs permissions to handle its own thread priorities, and when it doesn't have it, it creates this issue too. Discovered this during Fedora Asahi Remix 40 development and now there's a packaging recommendation about it.
5️⃣ Here's the 5th installment of my series of posts highlighting key new features of the upcoming v256 release of systemd.
I am pretty sure all of you are well aware of the venerable "sudo" tool that is a key component of most Linux distributions since a long time. At the surface it's a tool that allows an unprivileged user to acquire privileges temporarily, from within their existing login sessions, for just one command, or maybe for a subshell.
@mattdm@pid_eins I don't think it makes sense for any desktop variant. We already use polkit for this, and we already have pkexec to do this too. And on GNOME and KDE Plasma, we already invoke applications as slices in systemd, which allows things like systemd-oomd to be useful.
@soller I'm not sure about COSMIC apps on KDE, but Qt/KDE apps on COSMIC just need Qt platform plugins for COSMIC. Platform plugins allow Qt applications to understand the details of the running environment, including getting styles, decorations, and settings.
@soller Not everything can be handled through the portal. For example, you're not going to get a portal for either SNI (status tray icons) or DBusMenu (used to support global menus). Grabbing theme data and translating it back and forth requires the module so that it propagates to the application.
And window decorations have to be done by the platform plugin.
Is there a Linux [window manager / desktop environment / whatever they're called these days] that has good support for fractional resolution scaling on hidpi displays? My aging eyes really want 150% scaling for this Framework 13 laptop, but gnome only offers 100% and 200%.
EDIT: so far KDE does the right thing. I wish there were more options though.