Native rendering Release!
I am pleased to announce a new development release of Casilda, a simple Wayland compositor widget for Gtk 4 which can be used to embed other processes windows in your Gtk 4 application.
The main feature of this release is dmabuf support which allow clients to use hardware accelerated libraries for their rendering brought to you by Val Packet!
You can see all her cool work here.
This allowed me to stop relaying on wlroots scene compositor and render client windows directly in the widget snapshot method which not only is faster but also integrates better with Gtk since now the background is not handled by wlroots anymore and can be set with CSS like with any other widget. This is why I decided to deprecate bg-color property.
Other improvements include transient window support and better initial window placement.
Release Notes
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- Fix rendering glitch on resize
- Do not use wlr scene layout
- Render windows and popups directly in snapshot()
- Position windows on center of widget
- Position transient windows on center of parent
- Fix unmaximize
- Add dmabuf support (Val Packett)
- Added vapi generation (PaladinDev)
- Add library soname (Benson Muite)
Fixed Issues
Where to get it?
Source code lives on GNOME gitlab here
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/jpu/casilda.git
Matrix channel
Have any question? come chat with us at #cambalache:gnome.org
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Happy coding!