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This page tracks the Wayland showstoppers through out the stack
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This page tracks the Wayland showstoppers throughout the stack.
  
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== General issues ==
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== KWin/compositing/window management ==
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=== NVIDIA ===
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* When the compositor crashes, all apps crash too: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-85631
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The NVIDIA blob is not supported as it uses a custom EGL extension. It would require additional code just for NVIDIA. On the other hand many users are on NVIDIA. Further information: [https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/09/to-eglstream-or-not/ To EGL Stream or Not] and [https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2017/10/plasmawayland-and-nvidia-2017-edition/ Plasma/Wayland and NVIDIA – 2017 edition]
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* Spectacle rectangular region and active window screenshots don't work on setups with multiple screens: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432260
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* 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
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=== NVIDIA + XWayland ===
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* 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
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XWayland also uses the DRM/GBM mechanism. Due to that XWayland is not supporting OpenGL on NVIDIA even if KWin would support NVIDIA's eglstream. This would result in a terrible experience for all gamers.
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* "Pin/keep open" functionality for Plasma applets does not work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400317
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* XWayland windows are upscaled from a 1x pixmap and look blurry and ugly in HiDPI mode: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389191 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433115
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=== QT_QPA_PLATFORM ===
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* Very blurry fractional scaling for native Wayland windows due to using a downsampled 2x or 3x pixmap: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/issues/34
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QT_QPA_PLATFORM is set to wayland breaking any application which has Qt included (e.g. appimages, proprietary software) and doesn't have wayland QPA.
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* Some context menus appear in the wrong location as separate windows with titlebars: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417378
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* Visual glitch behind integrated terminals (Dolphin, Kate, etc): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432242
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'''Fixed'''
 
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by not setting the variable in system, but let every app decide on itself. Should be revisited once we can rely on Qt 5.11 and its new QT_QPA_PLATFORM behavior.
 
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=== No remote support ===
 
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We don't have an API yet for remote support. Even if we had things like TeamViewer would not work any more.
 
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'''Partly fixed''' since we now have an API for screencast using a separate KWayland interface. There is also already support in xdg-desktop-portals for convenience of other apps and general support in Flatpaks. What's still missing is an API for remote input.
 
  
 
== Input ==
 
== Input ==
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=== No (wacom) Tablet support ===
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* Touchpad Gestures:
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KWin lacks integration the tablet support from libinput. Also KWayland lacks wrapping the API for it.
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** They are not configurable
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** They are very boolean, they don't show any feedback until they're executed.
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=== No configurable gestures ===
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* Can't type accented characters in native Wayland Qt apps: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411729
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X has the ability to accept fake input events to allow programs such as Easystroke. With the new security model of Wayland, such a program would need to be part of the compositor.
 
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=== No XModmap ===
 
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We lack a functionality like XModmap to remap keys. See [https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/40 xkbcommon-issue40]
 
  
 
== Plasma ==
 
== Plasma ==
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=== Virtual Desktops ===
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* 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.
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We don't have an API yet for virtual desktops, so pager is not working
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* No activities.
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* Session sometimes crashes when changing Global Themes: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422424
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=== No window thumbnails ===
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* Plasma sometimes crashes when changing Global Themes: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414834
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We don't have an API yet for window thumbnails.
 
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=== No window move on empty area in breeze ===
 
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Broke with switch to XdgShellV6. Needs new API added to Qt (native interface), KWayland and Breeze.
 
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=== Logout ===
 
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[https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372789 There's a crash I know] (but fixing properly breaks X). [https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/897 Might be more stuff with SDDM], needs investigation
 
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=== No activities ===
 
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Activities are probably not a must-have feature, but anyway this is annoying for those who got accustomed to them on X11.
 
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== Qt ==
 
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=== No animated cursors ===
 
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See [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-48181 QTBUG-48181]
 
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=== wl_proxy_create_wrapper  ===
 
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http://bugs.kde.org/381630 (Fixed in Qt 5.9.5)
 
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=== Key repeat not working ===
 
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See [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-55615 QTBUG-55615]
 
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=== Compose key not working ===
 
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Will be fixed in Qt 5.11, [https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.11_Release expected May 2018]. See [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-54792 QTBUG-54792]
 
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=== No tablet support ===
 
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QtWayland does not yet support the tablet API. So even if KWin had support Qt would not be able to use it.
 
  
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=== Fullscreen does not work ===
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== Drag and Drop issues ==
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see [https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-63748 QTBUG-63748]
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* Plasma crashes when dragging a file over the panel: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398440
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* Cursor sometimes erroneously displays "no drag possible" icon even when it is possible: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383794
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* Can't abort drag-and-drop with the Esc key: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405267

Latest revision as of 16:38, 1 March 2021

This page tracks the Wayland showstoppers throughout the stack.

KWin/compositing/window management

Input

  • Touchpad Gestures:
    • They are not configurable
    • 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

Plasma

Drag and Drop issues

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