turns out switching from gnome to KDE on fedora is *really easy* https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/switching-desktop-environments/

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I didn't need to make a separate user account to keep things from conflicting either, and as far as I can tell nothing broke otherwise.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I like that I can make the KDE task bar go away when I have a window fullscreened

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@aeva gdm ftw?

[rrika@mastodon.social]

@aeva it’s been a drop-down on the login screen on SuSE all the way back in 2002

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

aaaaaa, multitouch gestures work properly in krita now, and KDE doesn't assume that no application could ever possibly want to use three+ touch points for anything. this is wonderful!

EDIT: I spoke too soon, KDE has a 3 finger touch gesture that does bad things if you have multiple monitors active (or I just didn't trip it somehow)

EDIT2: turning off KDE's "overview" desktop effect seems to be a viable workaround for allowing other applications to use their own 3+ finger gestures

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rrika the last time I tried to install KDE on a system that already had gnome installed on it, it took out my audio. however, this was in the distant past, the year 2023

[be@floss.social]

@aeva @rrika That sounds like a fuck up in the distro packaging side.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@be @rrika you're going to be shocked to hear how most users install KDE and gnome

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@c0dec0dec0de usually when I have both installed on my computer a portal to linux hell opens

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

blah, I got it to stop hijacking 3+ finger touch events, but 3+ simultaneous presses cause only the first two to be reported by pygame, and the subsequent touch and release events are not reported. problematic for playing chords :/

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

ok it looks like there's probably two touch cancel events coming in that pygame doesn't recognize. since there's no gesture events following it, it might be the case that KDE is still detecting the gesture, attempting to cancel the touch events it already sent, and then doing nothing with the gesture because I disabled the stuff it would trigger.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I'm tired of the stench of perpetual inevitable failure. gonna go play Hades 2 now and worry about all this linux later.