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Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened.

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/qt6_wayland_robustness/

You will lose no data, the video you were watching will not skip a frame, and the contents of your clipboard will remain intact.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/5C7uct72cxGnEQJn6LqdSn

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The same principles can be applied to jumping from one desktop environment to another, for example, from #Plasma to #Gnome...

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/gT1rKp7QWu7S4GYsKtw87x

... And can provide a way to save the state of an application to disk, stopping the app in its tracks and removing it from memory, so that later you can restore it just where you left off.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/3Sb8KKCmdQcPgoQsyK24YE

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] the future is now! I like how many cool technologies emerge from wayland

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

@TheStroyer @[email protected] @[email protected]

Th combination Wayland/KWin is killing it. We recently had Arjen Hiemstra showing how you can access a remote desktop:

https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2023-08/remote-desktop-using-rdp-protocol-plasma-wayland

Something that was seemingly destined to die with X11.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Compositor handoff to switch between desktops looks legendary! I super hope something like that becomes stable and officially supported somewhere, it would be so fun to use

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] is this the compositor handoff protocol? is that implemented by all major compositors already?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Holy fucking shit this is incredible

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hopefully there will be more support for this than just Qt6, especially for stuff like Firefox

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is so cool, I can't wait for KDE plasma 6

[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 11 months ago

I can't wait until this makes it to gnome

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@[email protected] @[email protected] From the article it seems more of a #Qt win for now (though it does mention patches for many others), but in any case that's neat.

Now it all just needs sane ways to interface from #CommonLisp.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] Very cool. Here’s hoping to see this in @gnome one day too.

PS. I’m sure you’re aware of it but, just in case, the window positions/dimensions appear to be lost on the restart. (An issue I have on GNOME too whenever it returns from suspend.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Gloom OPPS I meant Gnome is a dirt word.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The same principles can be applied to jumping from one desktop environment to another, for example, from #Plasma to #Gnome...

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/gT1rKp7QWu7S4GYsKtw87x

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

... And can provide a way to save *the state* of an application to disk, stopping the app in its tracks and removing it from memory, so that later you can restore it just where you left off.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/3Sb8KKCmdQcPgoQsyK24YE

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@kde

This would be amazing for games that take forever to load. When you want to exit the game just save it’s state to the disk, and the next time you want to play it just resume and boom! Instead of waiting for 3 minutes, you can play it almost immediately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@kde @kde
> For X11 this was unfixable; clients relied on memory stored by the Xserver, they made synchronous calls that were expected to return values, and multiple clients talked to multple clients.

time for X11 bouncer, X11 is network transparent ✨

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] Enlightenment had this features for years. Not only on wayland but in xorg too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Hoorah for Enlightenment then? 🤷