Mastodawn

It might be just me, but at some point in the last 1-2 years, all the #KDE apps I use on my #Librem5 got noticeably slower. This includes #PureMaps and #KDEItinerary. It feels like some sort of graphics acceleration shenanigans: Map scrolling in PureMaps used to be smooth, and now is almost unusably laggy. Even just scrolling up and down an itinerary or pushing a button is slower than a comparable GTK app (Tuba, Gnome Maps, etc...).

Oh great and powerful hive mind: How might I seek out incantations that could fix this?

#AskFedi

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fisherdude Feb 5

@okennedy Switch to Postmarket OS.

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Oliver Kennedy Feb 5

@fisherdude Let's assume that's not an option.

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fisherdude Feb 6

@okennedy Mobian? The problem is that PureOS is way behind everything else and KDE moved on.

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Oliver Kennedy

@fisherdude I view PureOS's glacial dev speed as the price of things just working™. PostmarketOS and Mobian are neat, and those teams are doing a huge service for the linux mobile community. I have an OP6 and a PPP that have each had one of those installed ... but those aren't my daily driver.

Bluntly, I'm looking for a deeper answer than just "Oh, reinstall your OS". KDE moved on, sure... that's the nature of software dev... but what sort of thing did that moving on break? Is this a Flatpak issue (e.g., some new portal that controls graphics)? If so, I might have success poking at it with FlatSeal or compiling from source. Is this a Wayland protocol issue? If so, I accept that this is beyond my reach (and maybe downgrade PureMaps) until Crimson rolls around sometime next decade.