https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472340
Álvaro M. <gritty.flame0...@fastmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #12 from Álvaro M. <gritty.flame0...@fastmail.com> ---
(In reply to Zamundaaa from comment #10)
> KWin still doesn't render icons... It doesn't render anything in the windows
> you see.
>
> There are some necessary changes to allow apps to handle this properly
> though. Here's a list of what needs to happen for this to be potentially
> supported:
> - the kernel needs some way of identifying displays with these special
> subpixel layouts, and it needs to pass that information to userspace
> - libdrm should be updated to add a value to the currently broken subpixel
> enum (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/-/merge_requests/317)
> - Wayland needs to be updated to add a value to its subpixel enum
> - KWin needs to be updated to pass the subpixel enum from the kernel along
> to clients
>
> That's all the things that are relevant for KWin. If you want icons to be
> rendered with the subpixel layout in mind (idk if that's even a thing right
> now), then you also need to get Qt, GTK, Firefox, Chromium and whatever
> toolkit/application you're using to handle that. And for fonts ofc, FreeType
> as well as the projects using it need to be adjusted to support the subpixel
> layout.
Thanks for such a detailed answer! I'll close the ticket, then.(In reply to
Zamundaaa from comment #10)
> KWin still doesn't render icons... It doesn't render anything in the windows
> you see.
>
> There are some necessary changes to allow apps to handle this properly
> though. Here's a list of what needs to happen for this to be potentially
> supported:
> - the kernel needs some way of identifying displays with these special
> subpixel layouts, and it needs to pass that information to userspace
> - libdrm should be updated to add a value to the currently broken subpixel
> enum (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/-/merge_requests/317)
> - Wayland needs to be updated to add a value to its subpixel enum
> - KWin needs to be updated to pass the subpixel enum from the kernel along
> to clients
>
> That's all the things that are relevant for KWin. If you want icons to be
> rendered with the subpixel layout in mind (idk if that's even a thing right
> now), then you also need to get Qt, GTK, Firefox, Chromium and whatever
> toolkit/application you're using to handle that. And for fonts ofc, FreeType
> as well as the projects using it need to be adjusted to support the subpixel
> layout.
Thank you for such a detailed answer. It's really overwhelming how many factors
are involved for rendering into a monitor!
I'll close the ticket, then. Or should I move/open it somewhere else?
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