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@valpackett > making sure wakeups don't turn the display on xD

That'll get us, like, 90% there usability-wise already 😜 AFAIR gnome-settings-daemon simply turns it on unconditionally on resume from system suspend.

It's nothing new and has even been proposed for upstreaming years ago, but I wasn't aware until now. Apparently it broke some iMX7 platforms, but could still be something worth having downstream.

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NXP has published their 6.18-based kernel tree and while browsing it I have noticed that they apparently found a way to support custom horizontal strides with mxsfb (by using some undocumented leftover IP for EPDC panels that imx8mq doesn't support). This may be interesting as it potentially opens a way to use linear PE in with the 's internal screen, so the GPU could render directly to the scanout surface without having to resolve its tiled buffer to linear afterwards.

@emill1984 @wariat Ktoś Ci sprzedał wybrakowanego KWrite'a/Kate'a, zażądałbym zwrotu pieniędzy.

@Oleksii Made me check when I flashed PureOS on my phone. Looks like it's a bit older 😁

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Q: And it will continue to work on non-Linux systems like FreeBSD?

A: Also correct.

Q: Why have I been hearing that KDE will force systemd down everybody's throats via Plasma then?

A: There are sad people who will do anything for attention and clicks, and will spread FUD and fake controversies to obtain them, including decontextualising comments on merge requests, stating as facts and official communications what are personal opinions, and finally straight up lie.

Don't believe the FUD.

3/3

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@mrlakes Recent versions of GNOME Online Accounts have generic CalDAV support; older ones can be made to work by choosing the Nextcloud option: semanticlab.net/sysadmin/linux

Despite of its enormous codebase it wasn't that hard to look around and find relevant stuff - the GTK layer is fairly thin. The hardest part was to compile it, but running distcc on a Steam Deck sped it up well 😄

We still need to:
- emit pointercancel when the browser takes the touch gesture over
- not change scrolling targets during scrolling just because a new one "flew" onto the cursor/finger
- have some thresholds to differentiate between vertical and horizontal scrolling

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All my merge requests have been merged. Now supports touch PointerEvent API, touch point coordinates are fractional, synthesized mouse events are unbroken and both WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit handle pointer capture and release according to the spec. This should considerably improve compatibility of ( Web) with touch interfaces.

There are still some more things to fix in there, maybe someone in community would like to give it a try?

@datenwolf Fun fact - you can write a protocol to offload graphics operations over Wayland too, and you'll instantly get about the same adoption of it as that part of X11 has today 😁

With things like QtQuick being basically a big scene-graph canvas to draw you won't get much further than that anyway.

@datenwolf @newbyte @mirabilos @jzb The truth is - these toolkits used to work the way you describe and they have been reworked since for good reasons, which is why we can now do or think about doing things like multi-GPU with GPU hot-(un)plug, split render/display nodes, modifiers, zero-copy, desktop effects (incl. accessibility ones) and lots of other stuff that software from 90s simply did not have to concern itself with.

@datenwolf @newbyte @mirabilos @jzb So now you're saying that to reap the benefits of "old-school graphics system" you need to constrain yourself to very specific bits of software from the past? How is that different to this theoretical non-composited Wayland setup, which could actually be maintainable if anyone cared? What happened to "give the benefits to all applications, without extra effort"? 🤔

@datenwolf @newbyte @mirabilos @jzb Meanwhile in the real world even X11 clients allocate their wholly owned surfaces to be presented with DRI.

@datenwolf @newbyte @mirabilos @jzb Yes, we even had Xvideo. But you know that offloaded surfaces can be efficiently overlaid, underlaid, alpha-composited, transformed? And it works today with device-independent APIs :)

@datenwolf @newbyte @mirabilos @jzb Pretty much all of them these days, as this is handled by dmabuf feedbacks and buffer modifiers, so it works even with split render/display pipelines or with multiple GPUs.

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