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> Moving forward with a single code path going through Wayland is going to allow us to bring new performance improvements, memory optimisations [sic], and brand new exciting features throughout Plasma.

I wish they would have listed what some of those features might be.

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They're still trying to figure that one out themselves.

I’m not surprised they’re not nailed down. But I’d appreciate seeing a “we’re looking at X or Y or if Z is now possible” kind of thing.

The maintenance and performance stuff is good, but it’s not exactly end user stuff. Yeah you benefit but it’s less obvious.

I don’t follow this stuff closely so personally I have no idea what kind of Wayland only features could exist that couldn’t before.

One nice feature is trackpad gestures. x11's trackpad gestures are awful, but on Wayland you can have the 1:1 multitouch that everyone loves.

Did you really just [sic] a British guy using British spelling?

Is that a British spelling? Oops.

Honestly my computer gave it a red underline so I decided to do that. I didn’t think about it harder than that.

If I recognized it like “colour” I wouldn’t have.

It would be a good habit to check (for example on the Wiktionary – I have a Chrome search keyword dedicated to that) because those are not the only differences.

fulfill vs. fulfil

judgment vs. judgement

disk vs. disc (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disk#Usage_notes)

hiccup vs. hiccough

diarrhea vs. diarrhoea

>judgment vs. judgement

In British English "judgment" without the 'e' is generally only used for talking about judicial rulings, whereas most other uses of the word contain the 'e'.

It's fairly common for us to use "-ise" instead of "-ize", but having now looked at Wikipedia on the subject, it appears that I incorrectly thought of "-ize" as an Americanism. The "-ize" suffix predates "-ise" - it comes from ancient Greek/Latin whereas "-ise" comes from French.

And the “[sic]” is followed by an incorrect attempt to form a conditional. Both problems arise from the same cause.

> my computer gave it a red underline so I decided to do that.

Why? You were quoting text so it would never be confused for yours anyway.

HDR support would be one I suppose. IIRC it's plain impossible with X11.

That already works with Plasma Wayland. It's still a bit finicky to make it work with things running in XWayland (Windows games primarily) but it's getting better.

I wouldn't say its "plain impossible" with X11, but its significantly easier on Wayland because its a far simpler design that aligns better with the graphics hardware, we're sending surfaces (or pointers to them) with metadata to the compositor, not drawing APIs.

Which is odd, because X11 has all this visual and depth stuff leftover from the days of 1/4/8/16-bit displays, and mixing windows of each type on the same screen. You would expect it to be capable of representing 48 bits just as well.

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