Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened.
http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/qt6_wayland_robustness/
You will lose no data, the video you were watching will not skip a frame, and the contents of your clipboard will remain intact.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Very cool. Here’s hoping to see this in @gnome one day too.
PS. I’m sure you’re aware of it but, just in case, the window positions/dimensions appear to be lost on the restart. (An issue I have on GNOME too whenever it returns from suspend.)
Gloom OPPS I meant Gnome is a dirt word.