On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 11:10 -0700, Shawn Starr wrote: > To further, > > jbarnes on IRC mentioned perhaps it would be a good idea to turn compiz > plugins into some sort of Freedesktop API specification so DEs can share > plugins? > > What do you think?
I don't think that's possible. There's no API and replicating all structures that compiz expose to plugins is not straight forward. Most effects are tied to how window management is implemented and it's slightly different in most DEs. Most of our existing window managers are also not designed to be plug-able and do lots of effects. Having an effects and window management plugin API that can be shared between DEs is a nice idea but very hard to realize. To be flexible enough such an API would have to be huge and I think it would be horrible to maintain. My opinion is that the shortest and most realizable way to having cross desktop window effects is to have DEs share window and compositing manager code. -David _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
