KDE Plasma 5.7 Offers Many Wayland Improvements, but GTK Apps Will Still Use X11

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

We reported last week on the release of the Beta build of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.7 desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems, and we’re now looking forward to the final release, due on July 5, 2016.

In the meantime, KDE developer Martin Gräßlin talks in his latest blog post about the improvements that have been added so far in order to bring better support to the next-generation Wayland display server on the forthcoming KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment.

He begins his report on the new Wayland functionalities implemented in KDE Plasma 5.7 with what didn’t make it, such as xdg-shell support, which should have landed as part of KDE Frameworks 5.23.0. Because of this, it looks like GTK applications will still use the old X11 display server when run… (read more)

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