Star KWin Composite Brings Bling to KDE4
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th May 2007 20:53 UTC, submitted by diegocg
KDE "KWin, KDE's window manager, has been around since KDE 2.0 (replacing KWM in KDE 1.x) and has grown to be a mature and stable window manager over the years. For KDE 4, however, there were a few people rumbling about visual effects, and perhaps KWin was feeling a little envious of its younger cousins Compiz and Beryl. While these new effects have created a lot of buzz around Linux and UNIX, long-term KDE users have wished they can enjoy the effects of Compiz/Beryl while still having the tried and tested window manager that is KWin. As a result, for KDE 4, KWin has received a huge graphical upgrade, with composite and GL support."
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google_ninja
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2006-02-05

Since fd.o doesn't do this by itself but, as I said, offers a collaboration platform for interested parties, your kind of directed request " fd.o, im looking in your direction" seemed mistarged.


The FD.o mailing list I mentioned in the parent post is the forum where such things are decided. That list has prominent members of the major DMs, which is why FD.o stuff actually gets implemented. They are not a structured organization, but they are not simply for hosting either.

from the main page:
freedesktop.org is open source / open discussion software projects working on interoperability and shared technology for X Window System desktops.


I was talking about the discussion part of it.

That's what I wrote, isn't it?
You even quoted it.


Actually, you didnt write that, you jumped down my throat saying it was basically the sf.net of specifications. It is that, but it is a forum for discussion of new specs too.

So, unless this is some kind of misunderstanding or misinterpretation of what happend, it looks like the discussion about a common base has already happend but wasn't successfull due to not having enough common ground.


Very perliminary discussions have happened about it. This is new technology, it would be a good idea to take a step back and look at how it fits into the big picture before everyone goes off implementing things their own way. It may be decided that the whole thing should be DM specific, or that parts should be DM specific, but that there should be commonalities to play friendly with others, or that it makes no sense to have compiz/beryl/kwin all doing more or less the same thing, and instead to make an outside project to handle the whole thing.

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anda_skoa Member since:
2005-07-07

Actually, you didnt write that


Actually I did, but maybe you do not read anything I write, not even the parts you quote?

Lets have a look at this posting of yours:
http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=18000&comment_id=244254

You quote from my previous posting "it rather offers communication channels such as mailinglist for "external" developers to propose and discuss specifications"

To which you reply "It also has a place for those external developers to suggest new specifications, it is called the XDG list."

And now you tell me I didn't already write that before?

Maybe a little fragment by fragment comparision will answer this:

- I wrote "it offers", you wrote "it has a place"

- I wrote "mailinglists", you wrote "XDG list"

- I wrote "propose specifications", you wrote "suggest specifications"

Now, I am not an English native speaker, but those look pretty much equivalent to me.

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