Fedora 39 KDE spin - Wayland session improvements - thanks and info on current experience

[Nate Graham]

Thanks for the kind words, Amir! Yes, please do submit bug reports for 
those issues.

Nate



On 2/19/24 04:29, Amir Khan wrote:
> Dear KWin / Plasma Development team,
> 
> I have been triaging bugs for KDE for some weeks, but as I have 
> development experience in C++, C and other languages, I'm keen to get up 
> to speed to be able to submit bugfixes too, in time. I've been using 
> Fedora 39 KDE spin for learning Kirigami/QML and plan to move to KDE 
> Frameworks with Qt this week or next week.
> 
> As I'm not in a paid contract currently and don't have any hardware 
> spare, nor the option to purchase, I'm running Fedora 39 KDE spin in a 
> VM, namely under Boxes on Ubuntu 22.04, and Virtualbox on Win11. Prior 
> to updating today, including kwin updates, Plasma under Wayland was 
> unusable. The mouse pointer wasn't accurately placing, e.g. it seemed a 
> bit off from where the output of typing was appearing, when running 
> Kate, as the only app running, or when trying to click on a hyperlink or 
> the address bar when running Firefox only. *The update I applied today 
> has vastly improved my experience of Plasma under Wayland, and it is now 
> usable. This is a huge relief because I understand Fedora 40 won't have 
> an X11 session option at all. Huge thanks from me for all your hard work!*
> 
> I was curious to see how far I needed to push Wayland before it might 
> start misbehaving. It was pretty far lol!
> When I ran four apps, all tiled under Plasma, namely Firefox playing a 
> YouTube video, Kate, Konsole and Java running Freeplane as a flatpak, I 
> started to get weird mouse behaviour again: pointer disappearing, 
> pointer changing based on its expected function, lagging from where it 
> actually was on the screen. Also, I was getting some flickering on the 
> bottom panel, though not making the panel unusable. I'm sending this for 
> information's sake, and will happily submit bugs to Bugzilla under kwin, 
> tagged with wayland, if I am able to replicate something specific and 
> easily testable.
> 
> Meantime, many thanks again, and have a great day :)
> Amir.
> 
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