Let scaling-aware Xwayland clients scale themselves with "scale-monitor-framebuffers" (!3567) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLab
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Based on this branch from Jonas Ådahl, main commit: Apply custom scaling to...

Hopefully this means no more blurry Xwayland apps.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    234·
    2 months ago

    Gnome takes a while to make changes. It is a blessing and a curse. They focus very heavily on stability and a consistent UI that isn’t confusing.

    • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
      173·
      2 months ago

      And at the same time they often introduce major under the hood changes that break stuff developed for the old version. It makes stability very vague here but “stable” distros don’t update the DE so I guess they can fix stuff before releasing a new version.

      • setVeryLoud(true);
        61·
        2 months ago

        You’re talking about extensions.

        Extensions that don’t come from GNOME are not supported at all, they’ve made that clear. If they wanted to, they could just stop allowing third party extensions altogether.

        This is because they hook directly into GNOME Shell’s’ internal JS, which changes every release as they refactor it for performance or feature changes. Developers have a few months before release to adjust their extensions for the newer version.

        Personally, I just raw dog vanilla GNOME for stability, and it works fine.

    • setVeryLoud(true);
      41·
      2 months ago

      I personally love it, I use Linux for work and I need it to be concise, consistent and stable.

  • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    We’ve had this on KDE for a year or two now, and it’s mostly been great.

    It won’t mean no more blurry apps unfortunately, but games will render at the correct resolution and some xwayland apps will look a lot better.