GTK default renderer

NoisyCoil <[email protected]> Sun, 9 Feb 2025 15:08:49 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.gtk-gnome
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

What are the upcoming plans for GTK's default renderer? I know the 
renderer was switched back to ngl [1] after Ubuntu's [2]. There it was 
mentioned that upstream's default (vulkan) could be used again in time 
for Ubuntu 25.04. Is this going to happen in the near future?

For the record, we apple silicon users [3] are happy that the default is 
still ngl, given that vulkan is currently broken on our platform [4].

Cheers!


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gtk4/-/merge_requests/28
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk4/+bug/2082017
[3] The asahi mesa drivers are not enabled in the Debian build yet, and 
won't be in Trixie (except perhaps as a backport at some point? who 
knows), but third parties' builds are being offered full support by the 
Bananas Team at this time
[4] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/7229