First round of feedback from Fedora 40 KDE Plasma 6 (Wayland-only) discussion

Neal Gompa ngompa13 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 18:23:06 BST 2023


On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 1:21 PM Laura David Hurka
<david.hurka at mailbox.org> wrote:
>
> On Monday, September 18, 2023 6:44:28 AM CEST Neal Gompa wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > So unless you've been living under a rock for the past week, you might
> > have noticed a bunch of buzz about Fedora KDE proposing to drop the
> > X11 session with Plasma 6.
>
> Well, in this respect I am living in a subway tunnel...
> I knew that this day will come.
>
> > Barrier/Input-Leap has come up as well. Seamless keyboard and mouse
> > handoff across computers is in demand.
> > * https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/89794/6
> > * https://invent.kde.org/plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/issues/12
> > The necessary portal frontends have landed in xdg-desktop-portal and
> > so we're just missing the requisite backend in xdg-desktop-portal-kde.
>
> Besides Barrier, there are also Synergy, x2x, and dozens of actual remote
> desktop applications.
> As soon as xdg-desktop-portal(-kde) supports programmatic handling of
> keyboards and screens, does that mean we can easily make applications like
> wayland2wayland?
>

Indeed it does.


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