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This page tracks the Wayland showstoppers throughout the stack.
This page tracks the Wayland showstoppers throughout the stack. Showstoppers are major bugs, crashes, or missing features affecting the Wayland session but not the X11 session. This is part of KDE's [[Goals/Wayland|Wayland goal]].
 
 
== Clipboard management ==
* Plasma fails to paste text copied from XWayland apps: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424754
* Text copied from a GTK app makes it into Klipper, but cannot be pasted after the GTK app quits: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424649
* Can't copy text from notifications: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434675 (very annoying for text messages with a long code you need to enter into a website for 2-factor authentication purposes)
 
 
== Session management ==
* User switching doesn't work: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/1371
* Session restoring does not include Wayland native windows. Our sessions management recover engine is based on the [https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libSM/xsmp.html X Session Management Protocol] and there is apparently currently no generic concept to do it on Wayland. But on Qt it's plugin-able and GNOME has according to [https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SessionManagement/GnomeSession their wiki] an own implementation for some time.
 


== KWin/compositing/window management ==
== KWin/compositing/window management ==
* Session doesn't start with NVIDIA GPU and proprietary drivers: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435673
* When the compositor crashes, all apps crash too: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-85631
* When the compositor crashes, all apps crash too: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-85631
* No Wayland protocol for cross-app window activation/focus, so windows don't get brought forward when activated by another app: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424795 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/50
* No Wayland protocol for cross-app window activation/focus, or launch feedback: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/50
* No Wayland protocol for app launch feedback, so there is no feedback on the cursor or Task Manager when an app is launched: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402903 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/50
** Windows don't get brought forward when activated by another app: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424795  
** No feedback on the Task Manager when an app is launched: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402903  
** No feedback on the cursor when an app is launched: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405624
* Secondary screen doesn't come back on after disconnecting and reconnecting: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434683
* Secondary screen doesn't come back on after disconnecting and reconnecting: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434683
* "Pin/keep open" functionality for Plasma applets does not work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400317
* "Pin/keep open" functionality for Plasma applets does not work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400317
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** Context menus: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417378
** Context menus: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417378
** In-titlebar app menu: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430662
** In-titlebar app menu: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430662
* Visual glitch behind integrated terminals (Dolphin, Kate, etc): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432242
* GTK CSD apps don't display any window shadows: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433977


== Input ==
* XKB options sometimes don't work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433265
* Touchpad Gestures:
** They are not configurable: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402857
** They are very boolean, they don't show any feedback until they're executed.
* Can't type accented characters in native Wayland Qt apps: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411729 / https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87088


== Plasma ==
== Plasma ==
* Session restoring does not include Wayland native windows. Our sessions management recover engine is based on the [https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libSM/xsmp.html X Session Management Protocol] and there is apparently currently no generic concept to do it on Wayland. But on Qt it's plugin-able and GNOME has according to [https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SessionManagement/GnomeSession their wiki] an own implementation for some time.
* Context menus close immediately when the tooltip for thing that you right-clicked on closes itself: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417939 / https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-83972
* No activities. KWin now has minimal support for them, but the Task Manager doesn't know how to interact with them yet, and it's not properly persisted, so it doesn't survive session restarts. https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/753
* Cannot unlock session after external screen turns off: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428706
* Context menus close immediately when the tooltip for thing that you right-clicked on closes itself: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417939
* Saving and restoring activities does not work (everything else does, though).
* Text copied from a GTK app makes it into Klipper, but cannot be pasted after the GTK app quits: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424649
* Task Manager thumbnails sometimes don't work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427826
 


== Drag and Drop issues ==
== Drag and Drop issues ==
* Plasma crashes when dragging a file over the panel: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398440
* Can't abort drag-and-drop with the Esc key while dropped file is over Plasma panel or desktop: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405267
* Can't abort drag-and-drop with the Esc key while dropped file is over Plasma panel or desktop : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405267

Revision as of 16:42, 19 April 2021

This page tracks the Wayland showstoppers throughout the stack. Showstoppers are major bugs, crashes, or missing features affecting the Wayland session but not the X11 session. This is part of KDE's Wayland goal.


Clipboard management


Session management

  • User switching doesn't work: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/1371
  • Session restoring does not include Wayland native windows. Our sessions management recover engine is based on the X Session Management Protocol and there is apparently currently no generic concept to do it on Wayland. But on Qt it's plugin-able and GNOME has according to their wiki an own implementation for some time.


KWin/compositing/window management


Plasma


Drag and Drop issues