[GTALUG] Feature Highlight - Wayland Compositor Hand-Off

[Scott Sullivan]

Now living in the future with KDE Plasma 6, on Fedora 40.

I can confirm that compositor hand-off is working as intended. It's now 
recovering gracefully from infrequent  bad interaction with a 3rd-party 
application.

On 2023-09-12 11:18, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:
> http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/qt6_wayland_robustness/
>
> This is a robustness improvements that let Wayland clients 
> (applications/programs) gracefully survive and reconnect with the 
> Wayland Compositor after a crash / restart or even complete 
> replacement with a different Wayland compositor.
>
>
> X11 Server, from what I understood in my old explorations, 
> architecturally it would not have been possible to get there from 
> within the limits of X11's design.
>
> As someone who daily drives KDE Plasam Wayland, I'm really looking 
> forward to this coming down stream. I've at various time suffered the 
> pain of loosing my whole session over crash bugs. A frustrating, but 
> thankfully brief example was a combination of PrusaSlicer and the QT 
> file dialog triggering a compositor crash. It really takes me back 15 
> years, when the same level of instability was in X11's ecosystem. But 
> I switched to KDE's Wayland compositor because there are meaningful 
> parts that are already surpassing the prior art, and competing with 
> what the commercial OSes are putting out.
>
-- 
Scott Sullivan