Vaela
A Vivaldi-style Wayland desktop on KDE KWin: video wallpapers per workspace, mouse gestures, a radial menu, workspace tabs and float / auto-tiling / scrollable layouts
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GITHUB · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 81%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- bazzite
- desktop-environment
- fedora
- kde
- kwin
- mouse-gestures
- +3 more
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Partial The settings UI, wallpaper picker, and gesture configuration are approachable with vibe coding. The compositor-level behavior of tiling, scrolling layouts, and gestures inside KWin on Wayland is deep, C++/Qt-heavy systems work.
What it would actually take: The stack would be KWin scripts and plugins (JavaScript/QML and C++), with an effect plugin for video wallpapers and a custom tiling engine. The hard parts are the Wayland and KWin internals, input handling for gestures and the radial menu without breaking the compositor, and the performance cost of decoding video backgrounds. A real build needs developers who know KWin, Wayland protocols, and Qt/C++ well, and testing across hardware and GPU drivers.
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Launched 359 days after the earliest competitor.
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