Name: Stabilizing Chromium's Wayland Support: Implementing and Testing Fallback Tab Dragging - Max Ihlenfeldt, Igalia
Start: 2024-09-16T11:20:00+0200
End: 2024-09-16T12:00:00+0200

September 16-18, 2024
Vienna, Austria
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Monday September 16, 2024 11:20 - 12:00 CEST

Hall M1 (Level 1)

Chromium has experimental support for Wayland and is moving towards stabilizing that support. One of the features needed for stabilization is proper tab dragging support.

Dragging tabs out of and back into Chromium windows doesn’t work on Wayland as on other platforms due to protocol restrictions. There already is a protocol extension that makes regular tab dragging possible, but it requires support from the Wayland compositor. Until all major compositors implement this extension, we need some form of fallback tab dragging that always works.

Unfortunately, to be able to run automated tests against this new tab dragging implementation, we need to fix some long-standing issues with how these tests are run on Wayland - time for another new protocol extension!

Speakers

Max Ihlenfeldt

Free Software engineer, Igalia

Max is a Chromium developer at Igalia, an employee-owned open-source consultancy. Open Source and Linux have fascinated him since he was a teenager, and he's grateful for being able to pursue this passion as his career. Among other things, he is helping to improve Chromium's Wayland... Read More →

Monday September 16, 2024 11:20 - 12:00 CEST
Hall M1 (Level 1)

LinuxCon

Audience Level Intermediate

Open Source Summit Europe 2024

Max Ihlenfeldt

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