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This is kinda a technology preview in order to see if we can ship features like this enabled by default in a lot more apps in the ecosystem.
Thus I'd be very super happy if you'll try it on lots of hardware - be Intel/AMD laptops or ARM64 devices (with V4L2 stateless decoders, such as most #LinuxMobile devices).
Chances that you really hit a zero-copy path are highest with a recent #Wayland compositor - i.e. if you are using #GNOME46, #kde6 or a recent version of #sway, #weston, #cosmic etc.
#KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Is Out Now to Improve Night Color, Discover, Plasma #Wayland, and More https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-0-2-improves-night-color-discover-plasma-wayland-and-more
@kde #Linux #OpenSource
KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Improves Night Color, Discover, Plasma Wayland, and More - 9to5Linux
KDE Plasma 6.0.2 is now available as a bugfix update to the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment addressing more bugs and crashes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
@nah @fvsch @sonny @matt But here’s the thing: Wayland would never have been made the default if, say, fonts didn’t render correctly. Not having a functional screen reader is as big an issue for people who rely on screen readers. So at some point, someone at Canonical decided that it didn’t matter that people who use screen readers would be excluded. And so they should be ashamed.
#a11y #canonical #wayland #orca #screenReaders #accessibility
So @gnome is removing the x11 session, leaving just the Wayland one.
If this goes out before Orca, the GNOME screen reader, is fixed to work on Wayland, it will mean that people who rely on screen readers will have no way to use one on GNOME. And thus on the major Linux distributions.
So I’m hoping the plan is that this change will not land until GNOME has a working screen reader.
#accessibility #a11y #gnome #linux #openSource #foss #wayland #x11 #orca https://peoplemaking.games/@ailepet/112077559713299711
ailepet (@ailepet@peoplemaking.games)
@noracodes@tenforward.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al @zeorin@indieweb.social For now: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/-/merge_requests/99People Making Games
My work in #KDE this February, no special banner image or anything as it's very small.
If you're interested in how we're funding future accessibility and (artist) tablet work in the KDE #Wayland session, you might be interested in reading this one 🙂
https://redstrate.com/blog/2024/02/my-work-in-kde-for-february-2024/
My work in KDE for February 2024
It’s February already, and as expected I didn’t have too much time on my hands this month.redstrate.com
Which do you daily drive, Wayland or X11?
#Fedora #FedoraPoll #Wayland #X11 #Xorg #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS
- Wayland (74%, 223 votes)
- X11/Xorg (25%, 76 votes)
TIL: #Wayland breaks most screen readers, as they are not not intended by design. (they need to interact with other apps)
Wayland is now the default in pretty much all gnome distros.
Orca has workarounds, but they are not merged and not fully working. (And a blind user can't built it without a working screen reader)
I'm not entirely sure if I got this correct, but it seems to me like the #Linux community once again booted the #blind.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/Wayland
https://wayland-devel.freedesktop.narkive.com/in2sPBfc/making-wayland-accessible
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.
Documentation at https://libervia.org/__b/doc/backend/libervia-cli/call.html
My #FOSDEM presentation about #Wayland video offloading is online. If you are interested, you can watch it here: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3557-the-state-of-video-offloading-on-the-linux-desktop/
I'm happy about feedback, both on the technical side as well as how I can improve doing presentations :)
#FOSDEM2024 #GNOME #gtk #Collabora #GStreamer #sway #kde #Chromium #mpv
Dear #Fediverse
We are funding accessibility infrastructure on Linux
We are focusing on issues and regressions related to Wayland and Flatpak
Please share your feedback and ideas, even if you're not sure if it's in scope 🤷
#Linux #desktop #accessibility #Wayland #Flatpak #FOSS #GNOME #KDE #freedesktop #a11y
GNOME Mess Is Not An Accident.
GNOME Mess Is Not An Accident - fulalas - Medium
GNOME accomplishes what seems to be impossible: it’s the most limited and bloated desktop environment for Linux. But that’s not accidental. It’s the result of the arrogance and amateurism of its main…fulalas (Medium)
Update regarding #wayland zero-copy video playback (using hardware planes): with a few small patches it works with #Chromium, both with #vaapi (Intel/AMD) and #v4l2 stateless.
Here a short video using a #rk3399 - the #PINE64 #PinebookPro - playing a 4k 60fps video - only possible with hardware plane offloading. Playback is *almost* smooth already (~50fps), the goal is to catch up with #GStreamer where we get stable 60.
I hope this will all get upstreamed in the coming months.
@verdre published his work about reverse engineering Android app support in Sailfish OS and bringing it to GNOME/Linux mobile. 📱
Great read
https://blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023/12/20/a-dive-into-jolla-appsupport/
#Linux #LinuxMobile #mobileLinux #GNOME #Wayland #Android #reverseEngineering #SailfishOS
Regarding the future of video playback in #gnome I'd like to add some more context around current developments in #gnomeshell, #gtk4 and #Wayland in a short 🧵
TL;DR: by making use of more modern hardware features we're finally in the position to catch up to other platforms with regards to energy efficiency. So let's do it!
New blog post from Matthias Clasen: dmabuf, subsurfaces, and graphics offload for zero copy data transfer over the graphics stack coming to GTK 4.14: https://blog.gtk.org/2023/11/15/introducing-graphics-offload/
Nobody had ever tested it and the authors missed the whole actual scaling part with wp_viewporter.
Anyhow, here's a working initial patch for #Firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1767142
1767142 - [wayland] Implement fractional-scale-v1 protocol support for fractional scaling
ASSIGNED (robert.mader) in Core - Graphics. Last updated 2023-03-23.bugzilla.mozilla.org
#Xfce #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
Xfce’s Apps Update for February 2023: Ristretto Gets Printing Support, Major Notifications Changes, and More - 9to5Linux
Xfce’s apps update for February 2023 is here with news about new releases of Thunar, Ristretto, Mousepad, Power Manager, Settings, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/xfce-4-20-desktop-environment-wayland-support/
#desktopenvironment #Developer #Xfce4.20 #release #support #Wayland #News
Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Will Bring Wayland Support
Work on Xfce 4.20 kicked off earlier this month with the release of libxfce4windowing, a new dependency for the Xfce desktop environment.LinuxToday
@gnome #Linux #OpenSource
GNOME 42.8 Enables Atomic Mode-Setting for NVIDIA/GBM, Improves Wayland and AMDGPU Support - 9to5Linux
GNOME 42.8 desktop environment brings atomic mode setting for NVIDIA/GBM, better AMDGPU driver support, Wayland improvements, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #X11 #Mesa3D #Wayland
https://www.igalia.com/2022/xdc-2023
Igalia will organize XDC 2023! | Igalia
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions.Igalia
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"
And then set it to 150% in the display settings.
If you do that and use Firefox, it will appear blurry so edit the firefox.desktop file (/usr/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop) and change the exec line to:
Exec=env MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox %u
#postmarketOS #alpine #fractionalScaling #firefox #wayland
v0.21.0 · World / Phosh / phoc · GitLab
This version requires wlroots 0.15.1, breaks phosh older than 0.20.0~beta2 and recommends following wlroots patches: seat: Allow to...GitLab
Is remote desktop making a comeback in GNOME on Wayland?
There’s finally some good news with regards to restoring VNC remote desktop capabilities in GNOME Wayland sessions. (It’s not fixed just yet.)www.ctrl.blog