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Show HN: Vela, a New Linux Desktop Environment (velade.org)
12 points by BrandoDev_it 14 days ago | rank | favorite | 9 comments
Hi, take a look at this. I didn't like KDE nor KDE Themes, so I made Vela, a new stacking desktop environment, and even though this is not very inspired in terms of aesthetic, this is not the point of Vela (not yet). Point of Vela is mostly architecture: Vulkan 1.4 only, no OpenGL fallback; based on wlroots, but has a custom renderer. GPL3 license. Vela is currently at 0.1.0 beta after one month of Alpha testing. Tested and working both on AMD and Nvidia. Requirements: a GPU and driver with Vulkan 1.4 support. I’m looking for people to try it on their hardware and report issues, and for contributors. Thanks

code: https://github.com/vela-desktop/vela



Looks like you put in effort to get the scaling (drawing) at pixel level. Very nice work, I hate it when I know I can get razor sharp text at native resolution. But then my eyes want something bigger, macOS upscales and I get a fuzzy picture...

Can you tell us more about the challenges in this area?


Cool! By any chance, is it written in either Vela[0] or Vela[1]?

0: https://vela-lang.org/

1: https://realm-labs.github.io/vela/overview/


No, this is written in C (the compositor itself) and C++ (parts which talks with QT) However, the naming problem is known and currently there is an issue open (#174)

AFAIK, KDE already does everything listed under "Fluid" and "Sharp".

You're not wrong, but at the same time KDE has to deal with a lot of legacy code from the past. Vela breaks with the past, supporting only Vulkan 1.4

No arm support? Dang

I'm sorry currently this is more focused to Desktop computers, ARM is not a priority for early beta

Looks great!! but i'm a KDE fan.

I understand, well Vela integrates good with KDE Apps. I think you should give it a try



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