xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland VS syngesture

i love hyprlands fork of xdg-desktop-portal[1] which fixes a bunch of things like obs window capture by using custom wayland protocol extensions[2]

[1]https://github.com/hyprwm/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland

[2]https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-protocols

I tried to get it working but seem to be running into some strange crashes which I reported in https://github.com/hyprwm/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland/issues/61.

Hello there, recently I seen that Vaxerski (Hyprland Maintainer (Hyprkang)) stole some commits in here https://github.com/hyprwm/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland/commits/bf035bf3d5b56fd3da9d11966ad0b3c57f852d78

As it seems, Hyprland has its own portal backend named xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland. So, first I would check if that backend runs and provides the dark mode preference. If not, you might want to discuss with the developers how this specific portal could be supported.

I'm on Hyprland, so with xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland I can screenshare at least with obs, maybe others, too

I had to install qt5 dependencies, despite this https://github.com/hyprwm/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland indicating it needs qt6. After installing qt5, it works.

I've shared my opinion on why mouse/trackpad handling is terrible on most Linux distributions [0], thanks to an insane obsession w/ rewriting the entire stack and throwing away vendor-provided acceleration curves in order to provide gesture support, instead of just building it on top of the correct, working solution.

More importantly, there is a solution for fixing this and I've done my part by open sourcing a multi-touch gesture support that's driver-agnostic and runs on top of the vendor-provided drivers w/ their correct acceleration curves [1].

(But TBH I don't know if this applies to Apple's trackpad because I don't know if there are any first-party drivers w/ proper acceleration curves for Linux or if they've all been poorly reverse engineered.)

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/multi-touch-gestures-on-linux/

[1]: https://github.com/mqudsi/syngesture/

I wrote a general purpose multitouch daemon w/ gesture support for Linux that works with the existing input stack (i.e. doesn’t require switching to evinput), if anyone is interested:

https://neosmart.net/blog/2020/multi-touch-gestures-on-linux...

https://github.com/mqudsi/syngesture

Regardless of software (touchegg + touché, fusuma, libinput-gestures + libinput-gestures-qt OR gestures, gebaar-libinput, gebaar-libinput-fork, syngesture, gestures), which gestures do you actively use on your Plasma desktop?