Wayland

KDE Impressions

These days, I often hear a lot about Wayland. And how much of effort is being put into it; not just by the Embedded world but also the usual Desktop systems, namely KDE and GNOME.

In recent past, I switched back to KDE and have been (very) happy about the switch. Even though the KDE 4 (and initial KDE 5) debacle had burnt many, coming back to a usable KDE desktop is always a delight. It makes me feel home with the elegance, while at the same time the flexibility, it provides. It feels so nice to draft this blog article from Kwrite + VI Input Mode

If you have a modern laptop, you must be having a touchpad with multitouch capability, in hardware. But on the software front, it must be crap.

And if you’ve always craved for having support for those multitouch gestures, you must have been following the X/Wayland development.

From what I’ve known so far, libinput is the successor to all older input support in X/Wayland. But it does have some conditions at this time. Like: Multitouch Gesture is only available in Wayland, not in X. Similarly, if you use GNOME/Wayland , not all RandR functionalities are available in Wayland, that are there in X.