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GNOME releases version 44

GNOME releases version 44

Posted May 1, 2023 18:49 UTC (Mon) by bartoc (guest, #124262)
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While a great release the lack of VRR, or HDR support, or improved color management support is really starting to chafe for me, and ultimately drove me back to using windows at home most of the time. I think Wayland is ultimately the "right way to do it" but the process around Wayland is a bit disappointing, it's very, very common for the kernel to get support for the cool new things years and years before any support appears in compositors, because they end up spending a huge amount of time going back and forth trying to agree on how to standardize the feature in wayland before anyone implements it. I would be much happier if we all just agreed on one compositor and everyone just used it, then new features could just be implemented, and the "standardization" could happen as part of the normal code review process.


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GNOME releases version 44

Posted May 30, 2023 7:33 UTC (Tue) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050) [Link]

Even with a single compositor, new protocol features are pointless unless they're usable and actually used by clients. The Wayland protocol process requires 3 implementations, 2 of which can be in clients. So colour me skeptical that a single compositor would make a substantial difference for this.


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