On Sun, 2024-12-29 at 17:10 +0200, Vlad Korol wrote: > Howdy everyone! > > My name is Vlad Korol, I'm a new developer here tackling KDE Plasma. > This is my first open-source project, and I will be happy to work > along with all of you to make Plasma the default in Linux desktop > experience. > > I myself have a mixed background in software engineering and AI/ML as > well. Skilled in C++, Python, Java and JavaScript. Programming for > years, so I know my way around best practices, Cmake and idiomatic > C++, and I'll be glad to learn anything else I will need along the > way. > > I myself was a year-long KDE user until I bought a new Nvidia GPU. > Unfortunately, it was a miss for me, and I decided to contribute to > improve Wayland sessions under Nvidia drivers. I have tested and > Wayland works on Gnome, so I believe the issue lies in Kwin, > composing and Nvidia GBM quirks. I believe my recent GPU (Nvidia RTX > 4070 Super) will be a great asset for testing current generation > Nvidia GPUs and make KDE Plasma more approachable and deliver "just > works" experience. I didn't look at the codebase yet, and I face > difficulties with building Plasma workspace because of newer > dependency, but I have already opened a bug report, and it will be > awesome if you could review it: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498018 > > Other than that, I am learning about the codebase and the > contribution workflow and will be soon making changes. > > I use Fedora by the way, the latest Fedora Workstation 41. My > timezone is Eastern European Time (EET). I am happy to meet all of > you, and feel free to drop a message to get to know each other!
Hi! Always great to see new contributors! I am just a passerby contributor, sending fixes from time to time to different projects, both in and our of KDE 😊 I wish you luck with your intentions of improving Wayland on NVidia, I'm sure improvements will be very appreciated by everyone! Cheers!
