New dependency for kio: switcheroo-control

Nate Graham nate at kde.org
Wed Aug 9 22:17:50 BST 2023


Thanks, I've added this to 
https://community.kde.org/Distributions/Packaging_Recommendations.

I'd also encourage everyone reading here to give that wiki page a 
read-through to see what else might be missing.

Nate



On 8/9/23 15:09, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Starting with kio 5.109, kio now recommends switcheroo-control[0] as a 
> runtime dependency. This applies to both kf5 and kf6. In distributions 
> with split libraries, the package including libKF5KIOGui should own this 
> dep.
> 
> This will improve the ability of laptops with hybrid GPU setups to use 
> the discrete GPU[1].
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
> [0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/switcheroo-control/ 
> <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/switcheroo-control/>
> [1] https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/1332 
> <https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/1332>


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