 Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened. http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/qt6_wayland_robustness/ You will lose no data, the video you were watching will not skip a frame, and the contents of your clipboard will remain intact. 26 comments
... And can provide a way to save *the state* of an application to disk, stopping the app in its tracks and removing it from memory, so that later you can restore it just where you left off.  @kde Yo, application snapshots? Switching DEs within seconds? What is this sorcery? Really though, I can already think of a certain handheld gaming PC that would really benefit from saving and restoring the state of applications to and from disk, both in a gaming context and for more seamless switching between gaming and desktop modes.  Not only switching desktops in seconds, but you take all your open windows with you, all the graphical applications in the exact same state they were on the other desktop!   > I should point out that I think this is an absolutely stupid idea on a conceptual level. Sign 😩 @kde checkpoint restore would be a godsend for debugging issues that are hard to reproduce! Much more useful than "send me the logs" and praying that logging has sufficient details. The same principles can be applied to jumping from one desktop environment to another, for example, from #Plasma to #Gnome… tube.kockatoo.org/w/gT1rKp7QWu7S4GYsKtw87x … And can provide a way to save the state of an application to disk, stopping the app in its tracks and removing it from memory, so that later you can restore it just where you left off.  @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Is "quinn" the canonical way of pronouncing kwin? :D Because I've been asying k-win for ages (but quinn sounds cooler lol) @spacekookie @kde@lemmy.kde.social Devs say that in theory the first, but, in practice both are used and nobody will get annoyed if you use the second. Compositor handoff to switch between desktops looks legendary! I super hope something like that becomes stable and officially supported somewhere, it would be so fun to use @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social is this the compositor handoff protocol? is that implemented by all major compositors already? @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social the future is now! I like how many cool technologies emerge from wayland @TheStroyer @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Th combination Wayland/KWin is killing it. We recently had Arjen Hiemstra showing how you can access a remote desktop: https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2023-08/remote-desktop-using-rdp-protocol-plasma-wayland Something that was seemingly destined to die with X11. |
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The same principles can be applied to jumping from one desktop environment to another, for example, from #Plasma to #Gnome...
https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/gT1rKp7QWu7S4GYsKtw87x