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New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

kde already has good fractional scaling, time to switch?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I really like the GNOME app ecosystem, I like KDE too but I’m not sure I’d make it my default desktop environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

But then you have bad touchpad gestures... 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Saying that but KDE have been having fantastic 1:1 trackpad for a looong time now. And most are usable. What is bad for you? Does gnomes let you configure with gesture for which?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Gnome's trackpad gestures are just something else. I don't know what wizardry they've done.

Those in Plasma and Windows are just terrible in comparison tbh. Gnome's are better than Apple's, even.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Basically a good 1:1 , nice overview (three fingers up, three fingers down stop), and yes you can configure in gnome (through extension I know...) the three and four fingers gestures. Also, they are as smooth as a Macbook in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But the result of those gestures(the overview) is not as useful as the overview in gnome and you have to swipe up to go to the overview and swipe up(not down for some unfanthomnable reason) again to leave the overview. A new gesture system has been added to plasma 6 which looks promising. The dev who made it said he has taken a lot of inspiration from gnome.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Actually quite good now on Plasma 6