What are some exciting projects that you follow and hope to see progress on?

I’ll start!

  • Wayland greeter on SDDM
  • rust support on gcc
  • more Wayland adoption (especially VSCodium & Firefox forks)
  • Reproducible Build
  • ReactOS
  • vettnerk@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    Pretty niche, but:
    https://github.com/canboat/canboat

    Allows me to interface a PC to a canbus in an efficient manner. I wrote an autopilot in perl using that, but I would like to see the project mature to the point where it is stable enough for production environments.

  • thayer@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago
    • Rpm-ostree: more robust apply-live updates; local rpm package upgrades without needing to remove previous versions first
    • Thunderbird/K-9 Mail: continued work on modernizing the UI and features of both desktop and mobile versions
    • GNOME: smoother animations and increased performance for low-end GPUs and IGPs (triple buffering implementation, etc.)
    • Firefox Mobile: site isolation
  • rastilin@kbin.social
    1·
    3 years ago

    More nixOS development. It’s the reproducible builds on the OS scale, one configuration file that will always generate exactly the same system when run, and you can update and rebuild from that file without restarting the system in most cases. This should make triangulating and fixing distro issues much easier, as well as making a distro easier to maintain from the user side.

  • binboupan@lemmy.kagura.eu
    0·
    3 years ago

    Wayland on Plasma (sure, it works but still work in progress)
    Lapce (like vscode but native)
    Proper keyboard and screen sharing for Wayland

  • DarthSpot@feddit.de
    0·
    3 years ago

    Polonium - autotiling for KDE 5.27. Ever since KDE Plasma broke Bismuth on wayland, i’ve been running with bare Plasma. Polonium is the first project to work (mostly) as Bismuth used to, although it’s just one developer working on it as far as i understood and it still has a bunch of bugs. But really looks promising.

    Also, KDE 6 (which will break everything again probably) :D

  • hottari@lemmy.ml
    01·
    3 years ago
    • I don’t realistically expect to see any progress here but video hardware acceleration gaining first-class support in popular applications would be a nice dream. The one area Linux is complacent to be “inefficient”.
    • One of the KDE devs has been working on some magic that might keep application state even after the desktop crashes.
    • Chimera Linux.