Problems in KWayland causes by API and ABI compatibility promises

Nate Graham pointedstick at zoho.com
Fri Mar 6 13:40:37 GMT 2020



On 3/6/20 12:55 AM, Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> Frameworks:
> ===========
> 
> Looks like just Plasma Dialog in Plasma-Framework, for which I believe 
> KWayland was turned into a Framework to begin with.
> 
> Other:
> ======
> 
> - Spectacle
> - Yakuake
> - Latte Dock (presumably similar uses as plasmashell)
> 
> Some of the above uses potentially have Qt upstream and/or KWindowSystem 
> API nowadays without the need to use lowlevel KWayland calls. I think 
> Vlad was porting away a bunch of now superfluous KWayland uses in e.g. 
> Breeze.

Yeah I guess if we can port the apps and Plasma Dialog away, we could 
make it live in KWin again.

Anyway, just a thought from a non-technical-expert in this code. :)

Nate


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