commit: 7530e88b17e71806bdb75dcc71f658d2510efc1f Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Sun May 21 06:58:10 2023 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Sun May 21 06:58:10 2023 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=7530e88b
2023-05-20-kde-pipewire-wayland.en.txt: Add news item Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm <AT> gentoo.org> .../2023-05-20-kde-pipewire-wayland.en.txt | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+) diff --git a/2023-05-20-kde-pipewire-wayland/2023-05-20-kde-pipewire-wayland.en.txt b/2023-05-20-kde-pipewire-wayland/2023-05-20-kde-pipewire-wayland.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..411b820 --- /dev/null +++ b/2023-05-20-kde-pipewire-wayland/2023-05-20-kde-pipewire-wayland.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +Title: Plasma Profile to enable PipeWire, Wayland support +Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <[email protected]> +Posted: 2023-05-21 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd/merged-usr +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/plasma +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/plasma/systemd + +Reasons +======= + +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. + +In Wayland sessions, the video functionality of PipeWire is not only used for +screensharing but also to take screenshots and -recordings or simply to cast +window content onto task managers' window previews. This is why PipeWire and +Wayland enablement are happening at the same time. + +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 [1]. Therefore it makes sense for Plasma profile to provide sane default +settings. + + +Changes +======= + +New global USE flags enabled: pipewire, pulseaudio, screencast, wayland +New package.use default: media-video/pipewire[sound-server] + +We want broad sound server support in packages, and these settings will make +PipeWire act as our PulseAudio server where there is no native PipeWire support. + + +Impact On Happy X Users +======================= + +Minor. Most dependencies were already required with kde-plasma/plasma-desktop +and its dependencies. Upcoming stable versions of kde-apps/spectacle and +kde-apps/krfb will depend on (K)PipeWire unconditionally. + +No one will lose their X session, but will have the option to easily log in to +a working Wayland session at any time. + +It is possible to set USE="-wayland" against these changes, but it will amount +to no dependency savings, just micro-optimisation in affected packages. + + +User Action Required +==================== + +In order to enact all changes: + + emerge -1avUD @world + Check out how to configure PipeWire for your purpose [2][3] + +In order to keep a PulseAudio or ALSA-only setup: + + Invert above new USE flag settings as needed, see also [2]. + +In order to avoid media-video/pipewire completely: + + This can only be achieved by losing basic task manager, screenshot/screen + recording/sharing functions as provided by Plasma and KDE applications. + + +[1] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers +[2] https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server. +html +[3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire
