It’s been a long time since I wrote here last time. I would like to share a few details about a feature that I’m really excited about, which landed in KWin recently. Drop shadows are drawn either by the compositor or the application. For ex…
It’s been a long time since I wrote here last time. I would like to share a few details about a feature that I’m really excited about, which landed in KWin recently. Drop shadows are drawn either by the compositor or the application. For ex…
It’s been a long time since I wrote here last time. I would like to share a few details about a feature that I’m really excited about, which landed in KWin recently. Drop shadows are drawn either by the compositor or the application. For ex…
Global objects are one of the core abstractions in Wayland. They are used to announce supported protocols or announce semi-transient objects, for example available outputs. The compositor can add and remove global objects on the fly. For ex…
Animations… Everybody loves animations. They make your desktop look more eye candy, and they also help with guiding or drawing the user’s attention towards certain elements on the screen, for example a new window or a popup or a button, etc…
Aurorae is a decoration engine that allows you easily using third party decoration themes from KDE Store. It’s been around for quite a while and it has a plenty long history. However, in the recent years, it has been somewhat neglected. The…
Aurorae is a decoration engine that allows you easily using third party decoration themes from KDE Store. It’s been around for quite a while and it has a plenty long history. However, in the recent years, it has been somewhat neglected. The…
Dark mode has been available in Plasma for quite a while now but the next release explores new areas where it can be taken one step further, beginning from some behind the scenes infrastructure to more user facing features such as dynamic w…
One of the biggest behind-the-scenes changes in the upcoming Plasma 6.4 release is the split of kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland codebases. With this blog post, I would like to delve in what led us to making such a decision and what it means for t…
Just a quick update: Recently, you might have heard that GTK 4 added support for the cursor-shape-v1 protocol on Wayland. The main advantage of the cursor-shape-v1 protocol is that it ensures consistent cursor look between apps. In Plasma,
Screen magnification is an accessibility feature that enlarges the screen to make text, images, and other user interface components easier to see or read. It is not something that requires constant developer attention, however, in Plasma 6.…
Screen magnification is an accessibility feature that enlarges the screen to make text, images, and other user interface components easier to see or read. It is not something that requires constant developer attention, however, in Plasma 6.…