• Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    While most changes (file manager improvements, etc.) are cool to have and are just improvements to the overall experience, what’s up with the “fractional scaling and Mutter improvements”?

    Why does nobody explain them more? At least for me, fractional scaling is the first thing that comes to my mind when thinking about what Gnome needs the most.
    And performance improvements are also good to hear, but in which aspect? Triple dynamic buffering?

    Does anyone have further information?

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      9 months ago

      I believe the explanation is “it’s hard, it’s being worked on, but it will take some time until all the pieces are in place”, and they’re not going to hold off releases until it is.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, but it sucks. Most XWayland-apps are blurry. So, I have the choice between not being able to read something because of my screen resolution at 100% scale, or activating fractional scaling and having half of my apps blurry.

        There was the talk about font scaling a while ago, where UI elements also scale with the font size. Has something happened there?