Plasma 5.8 Feature Freeze Next Month, To Be The First LTS Release

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Plasma 5.8 Feature Freeze Next Month, To Be The First LTS Release

Development on KDE Plasma 5.8 continues to move along with the feature freeze for it being next month. Plasma 5.8 when released in October is going to be the first Long-Term Support (LTS) release of Plasma 5...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Plasma-5.8-FF-Next-Month

[WebMac]

I hope the Wayland experience will be perfect with this release! Can't wait for it!

[smartalgorithm]

I hope the Wayland experience will be perfect with this release! Can't wait for it!

at least "feature parity" with x11 was promised... also wayland allows more quality code and tests, thus it should gain stability faster over time!

[boxie]

I hope the Wayland experience will be perfect with this release! Can't wait for it!

I love the optimism, I too, hope that it is good enough for daily driving

[WebMac]

That would be great!

[sheldonl]

Anyone know when the proprietary Nvidia driver will support Wayland?

[J?rnS]

The proprietary Nvidia driver supports Wayland.

[Guest]

Anyone know when the proprietary Nvidia driver will support Wayland?

It does but it uses EGLStreams whilst Gnome/KDE use GBM.

[Guest]

Anyone know when the proprietary Nvidia driver will support Wayland?

It does but it uses EGLStreams whilst Gnome/KDE use GBM.

[starshipeleven]

Anyone know when the proprietary Nvidia driver will support Wayland?

I assume you meant "properly support Wayland" as technically they support Wayland already, if your DE/toolkit supports EGLstreams instead of GBM that is the current standard.

Given average NVIDIA trends, 1-2 years later than Wayland goes mainstream and they finally get the message that none is giving a fuck about EGLStreams and that AMD and Intel are steamrolling them hard on Linux desktop because of that (not a very large market to lose, but it's still bad for prestige factor).