#kwinft

KWinFT Becomes Theseus' Ship

February 27, 2024

The KWinFT Wayland and X11 compositor for the KDE Plasma desktop is now named Theseus' Ship. This is just a teaser to something bigger though.

Qt 6 and More Big Changes To KWinFT

May 4, 2023

The KWinFT project uses Qt 6 now and one more wlroots protocol in a crucial place. These changes continue to drive forward the technical vision of the project.

Changes of Substance

November 22, 2022

The KWinFT project has now been going on for over two year

More wlroots with KWinFT 5.24

February 8, 2022

With the new release KWinFT is increasing its integration with the wlroots library. Preparations for the final library split out are ongoing at the same time.

wlroots in KWinFT

July 16, 2021

KWinFT is from today on internally making use of wlroots. A detailed look at reasons and impact of this important change.

In the Second Year of KWinFT

June 13, 2021

The KWinFT project is now in its second year. With version 5.22 just released let's take a look back at the first year and a look forward at what this second year promises.

Curious Child

February 28, 2021

The internal handling of window children on Wayland as on X11 has been reorganized in the latest version of KWinFT. A quick overview of the new implementation.

Window Kindergarten

February 19, 2021

An introduction to child windows and related ideas, what is an important mental model on X11 just as much as on Wayland.

The Windowing Revolution

February 8, 2021

The new version of KWinFT contains a monumental rewrite of its windowing logic. Read on for an overview of the changes and why this rewrite was necessary.

KWinFT Project 5.20 Released

October 15, 2020

New versions of the KWinFT projects are available now. Aligned with the release of Plasma 5.20 they offer new features and stability improvements.

Universal Means to Specific Ends

September 25, 2020

Today's beta release of KWinFT features a fundamental upgrade to Disman making it a truly universal display management solution not only for KWinFT and KDE Plasma but for a multitude of other desktop environments and window managers too.

Wrapland Redone

May 25, 2020

A first update on ongoing developments in the KWinFT project featuring a redesign of Wrapland's server library and two more projects joining KWinFT.

The KWinFT Project

April 15, 2020

Announcing the birth of the KWinFT project, a reboot of the window manager KWin and its accompanying libwayland wrapping library KWayland in the form of Wrapland. Its first release is available now.

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