![]() ![]() For Firefox we will keep shipping with our downstream patch until we manage to get it landed upstream.įirefox for Wayland: Martin Stransky has been hard at work making Firefox be able to run Wayland-native. We are trying to come up with ways for the UI to be smoother without sacrificing your privacy/security. The reason it needs to be manually enabled is not that it is unreliable, it is because the UI is still a little fugly due to a combination of feature overlap between the browser and the desktop and also how the security feature of the desktop is done. Chrome 73 ships with everything needed to make this work with Chrome, although you have to turn it on manually (got to this URL to turn it on: chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer). We been at it for some time and things are now coming together. We been working on resolving that with the help of PipeWire. This is of course a huge improvement in security, but it did cause some disruption for valid usecases like screen sharing with things like BlueJeans and Google Hangouts. The Wayland security model doesn’t allow any application to freely grab images or streams of the whole desktop like you could under X. Screen sharing support for Chrome and Firefox under Wayland. Fractional scaling is a critical feature for many HiDPI screen laptops to get a desktop size that perfectly fits their screen, not being to small or to large. It has taken quite some time since the initial hackfest as it is a complex task, but we are getting close. So I thought it was a good time to talk about what is coming in Fedora Workstation 30 and what we are currently working on.įractional Scaling: One of the big features that landed, although still considered experimental was the fractional scaling feature that has been a collaboration between Jonas Ådahl here at Red hat and Marco Trevisan at Canonical. As many others have reported to, with the GNOME 3.32 update things definitely feels faster and smoother. ![]() I just installed the Fedora Workstation 30 Beta yesterday and so far things are looking great. ![]()
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