• 0 Posts
  • 16 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: September 27th, 2023

help-circle

  • There are some really nice designs here. I really hope that KDE finally gets to pay attention to this. I love simplification of it.

    One thing I don’t like here is the login screen. There is too much stuff on it. I think gnome’s login screen, as it is now, is fantastic.

    And one more thing, proposal for mindset change: not everything has to be a widget. Some things (like shell) could have layouts: layout as current plasma/windows, layout as gnome, layout as Mac, layout as Win8… If things get well thought out, you can integrate this and switch layouts and not di*k around with widgets. Less moving parts, less problems.





  • Why would they put effort into changing something which works for them with the risk of breaking things?

    The sentiment is similar to climate change deniers. Why would we stop with fossil fuels when they work, people have jobs, etc. And why would we risk breaking the power grid?

    And as long as that works for them, they won’t actively change anything.

    Wayland on gnome and Ubuntu is already the default. It seems to me you have to actively change the default to x.

    It would be interesting to see in which scenario x is better than wayland. The only reason I can think of is an (old) Nvidia card. With new Nvidia’s I guess the statement would otherwise be ‘i will not use it until they fix Wayland’









  • This looks awesome.

    Looks like it could be a very good alternative to mutter and kwin.

    Questions:

    • what about Vulkan instead GL? Should be more performant and use less battery. Especially if it is meant to also work on mobile.
    • is Louvre drawing those window decorations?
    • there is some overlap with https://github.com/winft/theseus-ship - any idea for a collaboration there?
    • there seems to be a company behind, while I didn’t investigate, are there plans for further development that you would publish, is there a way to influence those plans (suggestions, donations, some other way)
    • any plans to make a shell around it?
    • it is mentioned that this is a library, but obviously there is a working compositor. Regardless if this is a technology demonstrator, would it be possible to publish a compositor with decent theming and a few distinct layer modes (classic windows with taskbar, windows 8 like, Mac, gnome, ubuntu). I guess many smaller Linux DEs would consider it then…
    • how does it compare to kwin/mutter?