Allow users to opt-in to Wayland support

[AKoskovich]

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[jnsgruk]

Thank you, could we also add the wayland plug to the list of plugs for the discord app? (see https://snapcraft.io/docs/wayland-interface)

[AKoskovich]

Thank you, could we also add the wayland plug to the list of plugs for the discord app? (see https://snapcraft.io/docs/wayland-interface)

It's already present by default no? Unless you just want it explicitly mentioned as a plug in the yml

[kenvandine]

The wayland plug is provided by the gnome extension, no need to specify it

[kenvandine]

How would a user opt-in? Without the WAYLAND_OPTS being set, will the platform pick it up automatically?

[AKoskovich]

How would a user opt-in? Without the WAYLAND_OPTS being set, will the platform pick it up automatically?

By setting the environment variable ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT to auto (defaults to Wayland if possible, falls back to X11 otherwise).

e.g.

~/.config/environment.d/electron.conf 
ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto

[kenvandine]

Wouldn't it be easier to allow users to opt-out? Or is the wayland support not good enough yet? If we revert that launcher script change, all you need to do is disconnect the wayland plug to disable wayland support.

[jnsgruk]

Wayland support has been pretty ropey for discord, I'd want to see the results of more testing before making it opt-out I think

[AKoskovich]

Wouldn't it be easier to allow users to opt-out? Or is the wayland support not good enough yet? If we revert that launcher script change, all you need to do is disconnect the wayland plug to disable wayland support.

Wayland support is definitely not good enough yet, users can't even resize windows on GNOME currently.
electron/electron#44543

However they did fix screen sharing recently so there's that. I would say it's all gtg for KDE users though.