Vulkan can offer higher performance than opengl and is supported by most gpus. Can you please add a vulkan compositing backend to make kwin faster and smoother?
Using Vulkan is not magically going to make everything faster and smoother
See also https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/08/thoughts-on-vulkan-in-kwin/ It's a few years old by now, most most of the points still stand
Shame :/ could’ve been more efficient for low end hardware that use batteries like Linux Mobiles for e.g.
And surely the driver point isn’t the same now?
Vulkan could be better if you have hdr10 and or 10 bit+ display panels. On the use cases part, Vulkan does have a very wide range of use cases as an API. This could be another one for the list. It’s a good idea if GPUs were to ever perform better with Vulkan than OGL or even to drop OGL entirely, it’s not like we’re asking for SPIR-V, WGSL, WebGPU to be used there are potential benefits here for the future. and even android uses vulkan for it’s windowing system if the devices hardware supports vulkan, surely Google wouldn’t have pushed it if OpenGL was the only option that made sense.