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(Sorry if this is a duplicate) Does anybody know why krita still doesn't have wayland? AFAIK it uses and QT and should be possible (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First post on lemmy I dont really know how to use the ui sorry if the post ends up looking weird

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

It's about colors. I'm not an expert, but there is something about professional color stuff that is still in the works to migrate to Wayland.

And of course for Krita it's quite crucial that colours are right.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could you elaborate what you mean by "doesn't have Wayland"?

Krita works fine on Wayland (I just finished using it to scribble out a comic strip, in fact), but is there something specific you're finding that is broken?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think they might be referring to krita using xwayland and not having native Wayland support

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Exactly I forgot to type backend

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I believe it's mostly drawing tablet support in Qt and in turn porting to Qt6 that's holding native Wayland builds back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It requires a Qt Toolkit for UI upgrade and developers prefer to not constantly be spending labor on chasing the current version of every dependency when they could be doing more artsy things.

AFAIK Krita 6.0 plans on bringing Wayland support & the upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But Krita works on Wayland session. So what's the issue?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Works fine with xwayland but that being said some distros are preparing to remove xwayland 😬

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh really? I didn't know that. Why would they remove Xwayland? Oh that's not a good idea. Which distro plans it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

they don't. some distros like fedora aren't shipping xorg sessions by default anymore. that has nothing to do with xwayland. op is misinformed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is supporting wayland so important for a distro?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

cuz X is 40 years old and its usage should be avoided (cuz of screen tearing,security reasons etc..)