Akademy 2021 - Addressing Wayland Robustness
Channel: The KDE Community
Date: 2021-06-30

By David Edmundson
Plasma hasn't been one of the first desktops to transition to wayland, which still gives us the opportunity to make the best transition.

One of the biggest issues that face wayland adoption is stability, if a client crashes, you just reopen it. If kwin wayland crashes, we lose everything. This is true across all desktops.

This talk showcases work across multiple libraries and toolkits to tackle this at the root with a method of "compositor handoffs" allowing clients to safely securely and seamlessly reconnect to a relaunched wayland compositor. This not only tackles the issue of robustness but also opens up a whole avenue of new opportunities that were previously impossible.

We will look at the work done and the upcoming steps remaining for this to reach all end users.