Fedora, KDE, Qt, C++, QML
If you are a regular reader of my blog posts, as I am sure you are, you will know that we made a switch with Fedora 41 and now use PipeWire as the default backend for camera handling in Firefox. It won t come as a surprise that such a huge change is not without its problems. After talking to many... Read more
Starting with Fedora 41, we will make PipeWire the default backend for camera handling in Firefox. This is part of the effort to integrate support for Intel IPU6 cameras. You can read more about IPU6 cameras at the link proposing this feature, but the important part is that these cameras can only (as of now) be used with PipeWire. Is... Read more
I decided to write a post about how to use the PipeWire camera support in Firefox, how to enable it, how to check if it s working and how to debug possible problems. Prerequsities To use PipeWire camera support, you need Firefox 116 or newer. However, the latest Firefox 122 includes major PipeWire camera changes, making it actually usable (you can... Read more
I wrote the first blog post about PipeWire cameras in Firefox in May and a lot has happened since then. The first PipeWire support arrived shortly after the blog post was published and was released as part of Firefox 116 (August). We didn t enable it by default, of course since it s still a work in progress , but many of you... Read more
We have been working on and using custom Qt theming in Fedora Workstation for many years now. By custom Qt theming, I m talking about the QGnomePlatform and Adwaita-qt projects. If you haven t heard of them, you can read my recent blog post explaining what they are. While these projects are in some ways better than what Qt upstream has to... Read more
New year, new challenges. We finally reached a major milestone with Chromium 110, which was a release where we finally got screen sharing enabled by default on Wayland, and since then you no longer have to go into the preferences and enable the flag you need. That doesn t mean my work there is over, but I ve shifted my focus to... Read more
I decided to write this post to explain everything I can about these two projects. There have been discussions and people demanding these projects should not be used by default in Fedora. As part of this, some issues were raised and it might not be clear which component might be responsible for what. I ended up constantly defending these projects... Read more
Although Wayland screen sharing is still not yet enabled by default in Chromium, which is what I hoped to achieve this year, I think I can say we are almost there and you can expect it sooner than later. Let’s summarize what we have accomplished this year to make this change happen: Stream restoration support You probably remember that you... Read more
While we have pretty good support for screen sharing on Wayland in WebRTC, which is included in browsers like Chromium or Firefox, it is still not enabled by default in Chromium and it is kept behind a flag. Not only you have to remember to always enable it for new configurations, but for many users it is not even something... Read more
There was a blog post from Peter Hutterer about Flatpak portals posted few months back. Peter explained what are portals and how do they work. Portals are used mostly because of security and sandbox/Wayland restrictions. Many times your only way to get access outside (opening a file, sending a notification, sharing a screen, etc.) is to use a portal. For... Read more