On Wednesday 20 September 2006 5:21 pm, David Reveman wrote: > 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.
Agreed, there is no common DE mechanism for window management. > 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. Sure, that would be a good thing. I don't know what the KDE folks have planned for their composite management in kwin. A lot of work has been put into compiz and having the common bits shared amongst the DEs would be nice. Thanks, Shawn. _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
