Bug#1078210: src:gtk4: Please enable vulkan backend

[Matthias Geiger]

On 08.08.24 11:42, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> On Thu, 08 Aug 2024 at 11:32:17 +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote:
>> GTK4 has gained support for using Vulkan as backend remderer [0]
>> Please consider enabling it (see attached patch).
>>
>> [0] https://blog.gtk.org/2024/01/28/new-renderers-for-gtk/
> It has -Dauto_features=enabled, so it should already be enabled for Linux
> non-udeb builds? The amd64 buildd log says:
>
>    Features
>      Vulkan support      : true
Sorry for my confusion, I had a look at the old build log and didn't see 
it's enabled now.
>
> (But it's intentional that it's disabled for the udeb build, along
> with many other normal features like Wayland and GStreamer. If we ever
> manage to get d-i moved to Gtk 3 and then Gtk 4, we're unlikely to get
> a libvulkan1-udeb.)
>
>      smcv

best,

werdahias