I moved to KDE for better gaming support, but I really dislike the condensed look of everything in the settings app, discover, and most of all in Dolphin.

Are there any discrete, simple, clean themes that have more padding ? I like how GNOME looks but I really dislike their slow development for gaming related stuff.

  • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
    33·
    4 months ago

    What does VRR have to do with KDE? Or HDR?

    • warmaster@lemmy.worldOP
      91·
      4 months ago

      DEs ship their own Wayland compositors. Kwin for KDE and Mutter for GNOME. Both have different capabilities. Kwin has support for VRR & HDR, and better color management. KDE Plasma has GUIs to visually configure them. GNOME has almost no support for this, either on the compositor and/or the GUI.

      X11 had it’s own compositor, the X.Org server. Things changed.

      • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Wayland compositors

        As I understand it, functionality like VRR is provided by the DRM driver in the kernel, not the compositor. Hence my question.

          • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            It’s not like games talk to the kernel and GPU driver directly to get graphical output

            LOL that’s exactly what they do.

            there’s a desktop environment they need to take into account

            They do not need to take the desktop environment into account. They ask for a window and they render into it. They’ll ask for a window using either the OpenGL or Vulcan API. Both those APIs abstract the windowing system away, the desktop is entirely irrelevant. Under Wayland, the compositor requests a buffer from the kernel, provides it to the game and then manages where on the desktop that buffer is rendered. The game’s rendering is done directly (talking to the kernel and GPU driver) without going anywhere near either the compositor or the desktop environment.

            The desktop environment means nothing when it comes to gaming. Except in so far as it may provide a GUI to configure aspects of the system that would otherwise be configured on the comand line or, for example by interacting with /sys.

            This is why I asked what OP meant when they said KDE “supports” gaming better. Seems ridiculous. The desktop environment is not involved in game rendering. It has no impact. I’m mystified as to why people think it does.

        • Codilingus@sh.itjust.works
          41·
          4 months ago

          Lmao, I don’t know how else to word this? Here we go…

          It is the case that OP wants to use features such as VRR, and HDR. It is also the case that gnome supports neither. And also the case that KDE now has official support for both VRR, and HDR. Thus, OP has made the choice to use KDE, because it suits his gaming needs.