From: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Cc: pr@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plasma Profile to switch on PipeWire, Wayland support
Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 13:35:41 +0200 [thread overview]
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Title: Plasma Profile to switch on PipeWire, Wayland support
Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
Posted: 2023-05-20
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1. PipeWire
Gentoo's Plasma profile has not had any sound server enabled since the days of
KDE's own aRts. As the way we output sound has changed dramatically in the
years since - using wireless or often several devices, dynamically connected
and shared between multiple systems, a modern desktop environment is expected
to handle this effortlessly by default.
This means the profile will enable both USE="pipewire,pulseaudio" globally, and
enable media-video/pipewire[sound-server] to make it act as our PulseAudio
server.
User action required:
- Check out what, if anything, you should configure to make PipeWire work for
your purpose [1].
- For kde-apps/kmix users, a second sound mixer will appear in system tray:
kde-plasma/plasma-pa as pulled in by kde-plasma/plasma-meta. Quit KMix and it
will not re-appear on next startup.
- If you want to keep your PipeWire or ALSA-only setup, invert above USE flag
settings globally, as needed.
2. Wayland
Plasma Wayland support has come a long way and we consider it stable enough
for daily use with a lot - if not all - systems, even if some known papercuts
remain [2]. For those willing to switch it makes sense for Plasma profile
to already provide sane settings. For everyone else it means only negligible
impact in dependencies, as most of it was already inevitable with
kde-plasma/plasma-desktop and its dependencies.
Plasma profile will enable both USE="wayland,screencast" globally. The latter
flag is tied to the video functionality of PipeWire, and e.g. used to 'cast'
window content onto task managers' window previews. This is why PipeWire and
Wayland enablement are happening at the same time.
User action required:
- If you want to keep your PipeWire or ALSA-only setup with Wayland, note that
media-video/pipewire installation can not be avoided, but configuration not to
act as a sound server is possible [1].
- None. No one will lose their X session, but will have the option to easily
log into a working Wayland session instead.
[1] https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.html
[2] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers
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next reply other threads:[~2023-05-16 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-16 11:35 Andreas Sturmlechner [this message]
2023-05-16 12:16 ` [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item v2: Plasma Profile to switch on PipeWire, Wayland support Andreas Sturmlechner
2023-05-16 13:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-05-16 14:04 ` Andreas Sturmlechner
2023-05-16 17:55 ` [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item v3: Plasma Profile to enable " Andreas Sturmlechner
2023-05-16 18:15 ` Sam James
2023-05-16 19:01 ` Toralf Förster
2023-05-16 19:09 ` Andreas Sturmlechner
2023-05-16 19:38 ` Toralf Förster
2024-08-29 21:08 ` [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item: KDE Plasma 6.1.4 and Gear 24.05.2 Upgrade Andreas Sturmlechner
2024-08-29 21:43 ` Sam James
2023-05-17 20:52 ` [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item v3: Plasma Profile to enable PipeWire, Wayland support Andreas Sturmlechner
2023-05-22 7:18 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
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