| Summary: | Add information about the actual windowing system (i.e. Wayland or X11) | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kinfocenter | Reporter: | popov895 <popov895> |
| Component: | About this System | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | bugseforuns, justin.zobel, meven.car, meven29, nate, popov895, sitter |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 5.20.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kinfocenter/commit/a07380a3224a0c5b52d434880d050e082201ce53 | Version Fixed In: | 5.21 |
| Attachments: | Gnome system information | ||
What's the use case? This is useful to know, for example, when reporting a bug. An inexperienced user will have to google how to get this information. It will also be helpful to know which windowing system a given distribution is using (e.g. for live images). . I agree this would be useful given a lot of users will simply copy/paste from kinfocenter when reporting bugs. This way it's provided from the initial report instead of the triage team having to ask, then wait, etc. I agree, this would indeed be useful for troubleshooting/debug purposes as more and more people use Wayland, and especially once Fedora switches to Wayland by default. A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kinfocenter/-/merge_requests/22 Git commit 6a5b71128bce2cc0132725ab0e06f4e07a1f8a46 by Méven Car. Committed on 25/01/2021 at 14:14. Pushed by meven into branch 'master'. About-distro: display Graphics Platform (X11 or Wayland) Also include it in the copy to clipboard output. M +1 -0 Modules/about-distro/src/CMakeLists.txt A +24 -0 Modules/about-distro/src/GraphicsPlatformEntry.cpp [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] A +18 -0 Modules/about-distro/src/GraphicsPlatformEntry.h [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] M +3 -1 Modules/about-distro/src/Module.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kinfocenter/commit/6a5b71128bce2cc0132725ab0e06f4e07a1f8a46 Git commit a07380a3224a0c5b52d434880d050e082201ce53 by Méven Car. Committed on 02/02/2021 at 10:22. Pushed by meven into branch 'Plasma/5.21'. About-distro: display Graphics Platform (X11 or Wayland) Also include it in the copy to clipboard output. M +1 -0 Modules/about-distro/src/CMakeLists.txt A +24 -0 Modules/about-distro/src/GraphicsPlatformEntry.cpp [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] A +18 -0 Modules/about-distro/src/GraphicsPlatformEntry.h [License: GPL(3+eV) GPL(v3.0) GPL(v2.0)] M +3 -1 Modules/about-distro/src/Module.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kinfocenter/commit/a07380a3224a0c5b52d434880d050e082201ce53 |
Created attachment 132833 [details] Gnome system information SUMMARY There are no easy ways to find out which windowing system is actually using: Wayland or X11. Please, add information about the actual windowing system to System Information, like Gnome does. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE neon 5.20 User Edition / X11 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.75.0 Qt Version: 5.15.0