When the screencast useflag is disabled for kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.23, kde-plasma/kwin-5.23, and sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal-5.23 the window thumbnails for the task manager are not displayed in a wayland session. See also upstream bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443719 Thus, the above packages should enable the useflag by default for wayland users. However, I am unsure about the proper way to do so. Maybe the plasma-desktop or plasma-meta metapackage should add a wayland useflag that adds the dependency. If wayland is unconditionally enabled for plasma theses days (i.e., the global wayland use-flag must not be set globally to enable wayland support), the screencast useflag should perhaps simply enabled by default. Reproducible: Always
Simply warn about it, i think. I don't use window tumbnails as example
I would expect basic functionality as a task manager to work out of the box. In my understanding a useflag should enable/disable functionality, but not break the package in a way, that it does behave in an unexpected way. Thus, I would still prefer a solution, that enables the useflags at least as a dependency for wayland useflag enabled systems.
IUSE=screencast will become default enabled in plasma profile for sure, at one point or another, but media-video/pipewire has not been proven to be stable enough, and leads to problems with pulseaudio unless manually configured. IUSE=wayland has not had priority either as long as there are more important errata still existing.
OK... Pipewire replaced my PA and I have not noticed it. Thought, that another step to activate Pipewire and deactivate PA is necessary.
Now we have local USE sound-server on pipewire package https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=21f12bb743b94242f73cef85ef24fdf6ff703eed With that, I would consider video function of pipewire to be really separated from audio function. Also the runtime conflict between pipewire with audio function enabled and pulseaudio daemon over audio hardware is no longer a concern, because simultaneous installation of pipewire[sound-server] and pulseaudio-daemon is blocked. Hope this helps with enabling USE screencast in plasma profile. On a side note, there are now 9 packages with local USE screencast, the function of this USE flag is pretty well defined (screen cast portal integration using media-video/pipewire) - so USE screencast can now be made global.
I am considering enabling +screencast default in plasma profile with our first 5.25.x stabilisation. Any arguments against that?
Sounds good!
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=252b10a3e7c5b5b482c98dec8cd217eba4c67c20 commit 252b10a3e7c5b5b482c98dec8cd217eba4c67c20 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-07-15 07:57:35 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-07-20 05:12:43 +0000 profiles: add "screencast" global USE Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/744622 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/818253 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> profiles/use.desc | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cca1077a7664f1fe6d3d9350f57bf5fa0ec10714 commit cca1077a7664f1fe6d3d9350f57bf5fa0ec10714 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-10-10 11:02:22 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-05-21 07:04:53 +0000 profiles: desktop/plasma: Set IUSE=screencast,wayland in make.defaults Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/818253 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> profiles/targets/desktop/plasma/make.defaults | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
