That's pretty cool. All I need now is a HDR display
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Why is that a switch? Is there any reason to have HDR disabled?
Some monitors say they're HDR, when in fact they support it so badly it feels criminal to say they support it. It is a terrible idea to enable it on one of those.
Gnome is severely lagging behind plasma, despite having a smaller desktop environment to develop and manage... Maybe the gnome dev team is much smaller too.
I don't get it because gnome gets much more funding iirc
One thing that seems to pop up often in comparison is accessibility. Luckily I don't need to bother with it personally but apparently accessibility options in Gnome are significantly better than in KDE.
despite having a smaller desktop environment to develop and manage...
What does this mean¿?
Just a lot less settings, options and features. Gnome is slimmed down compared to plasma.
This is true, however delivering the essential things in the most elegant way possible is also somthing that requires time and effort
Maybe some things might be also easier to implement as they are using a toolkit that costs at least 3670 €/year per dev (if you use it for proprietary stuff). 😀
I use gnome and I am curious about the specifics of how it lags?
I think they mean HDR and some ancillary things have taken longer to implement.
This is true, but it's important to remember that a huge amount of this work on Plasma was spearheaded by Valve. Gnome doesn't have that going for them.
Gnome also generally doesn't enable things until it's implemented in a way that they feel is very polished and isn't a workaround. Plasma's HDR implementation was pretty whacky for a while.
There are some areas where Gnome is ahead of Plasma, but most PC users don't really care about it, so it never gets mentioned (understandably so).
Accessibility in Gnome is better than any other DE, IMO, and it's getting better. Not many people actually use these options though, and even the people that use one accessibility feature don't often use other accessibility features. So Gnome being pretty great in that regard flies completely under the radar.
"Adaptive" apps are something Gnome is great at, too. Take virtually any Libadwaita/GTK4 app, and resize it, they work remarkably well at any size. Size it really small and it'll even (extremely seamlessly) turn into a pretty great phone UI. I find it pretty incredible tbh, but it's of little use right now because Linux phones aren't really a thing. If we get a future of Linux phones, though, Gnome seems really well positioned for that.
Or if you get Linux in VR/AR. Not only Linadwaita, but also the accessibility features will come in handy then.
Adaptive layout is pretty nice at desktop too if you’re tiling windows.
I used it on a handheld gaming PC and for me it's been pretty great mostly because the touch UI was easier for me to navigate than plasma (which I tried first). I figured since I can rebase back if I really want to it'll be fine. I haven't had any problems with it but I mostly use it for gaming with steam so obviously I'm not doing a whole lot of technical stuff with settings and apps.
For me it was that Jetbrains editors have blurry text under Wayland 4k screens, even with fractional scaling experimental enabled. And in plasma the same app has sharp text.
There were a few of those situations and I just got the impression that plasma was working better. Also the theming in Gnome was kind of hacky. Plasma has better looking themes too.