I’ve written some other posts on Wayland recently, and it’s time for another one! Feel free to skip it it you aren’t interested in a discussion of Wayland and platforms. Many may …
Only yesterday I gave a test drive again for Plasma on Wayland. First thing I notice, the hold-and-release method of menu selection that’s been around since the original Macs still doesn’t work; it seems there’s no DE on Wayland where it does work! You have to use the slower click-release-click-again. Next, still no window shading that I habitually associate with double-clicking the title bar. But these are minor complaints.
A bigger problem would be that one cannot attach window- or application-specific special actions. Kontact/KMail becomes pretty useless when you can no longer make it remember the window locations of its reader and composer windows, or even the main window. Launching Kontact makes it appear in a random place each time.
Since Plasma 6.0 is already rumoured to have Wayland as the default, it sure does have a lot still to catch up.
Well, surely not everything. But it breaks a lot.
Only yesterday I gave a test drive again for Plasma on Wayland. First thing I notice, the hold-and-release method of menu selection that’s been around since the original Macs still doesn’t work; it seems there’s no DE on Wayland where it does work! You have to use the slower click-release-click-again. Next, still no window shading that I habitually associate with double-clicking the title bar. But these are minor complaints.
A bigger problem would be that one cannot attach window- or application-specific special actions. Kontact/KMail becomes pretty useless when you can no longer make it remember the window locations of its reader and composer windows, or even the main window. Launching Kontact makes it appear in a random place each time.
Since Plasma 6.0 is already rumoured to have Wayland as the default, it sure does have a lot still to catch up.