[Zhyl]

Would someone from the KDE team be able to give an update on the Valve funding for KDE? [0]

I remember being quite happy when I heard this, as it might be paving the way for a renewed SteamOS initiative, or another Linux offensive, but I don't follow KDE closely and I haven't heard anything since around the time of this article.

Any indication of what was achieved and what has happened since would be interesting to me!

[0] - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Valve-Fu...

[jpetso]

I haven't checked whether Roman Gilg is still working for Valve, but he ended up forking KWin into KWinFT (plus supporting libs) with a heavy Wayland focus. He got frustrated by upstream KDE not merging his extensive refactorings on a timeline that worked for to him and is now trying to out-compete the original. Roman Gilg's blog is a good read on that matter.

Both parties seem very reasonable to me. So far, the jury is still out on where things will end up - KWinFT has some good momentum and ideas, while upstream KWin with David Edmundson and other steady contributors are also continuing to fix lots of Wayland issues with every release. Either way it looks like we'll be in a good spot soon.

[Zhyl]

Thank you, I will give his blog a read!