On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 21:55 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: > Hello > > On May 2, 2007 03:50:50 pm David Reveman wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 17:24 +0200, Patrick Niklaus wrote: > > > I realized some major problems with this approach. To give you a > > > better idea of what I'm actually talking about, take a look at this > > > schema: > > > http://media.beryl-project.org/Decoration-Schema.png > > > > > > As you can see KWD, GWD and Emerald would run in the same > > > applications, as plugins. > > > This might cause problems because the main loops of Qt and Gtk are > > > conflicting here, which was actually one of the reasons why the > > > decorator was not a own plugin in compiz. > > > > > > Another problem is the settings backend. To integrate into the desktop > > > each plugin uses its own backend. For example the emerald plugin uses > > > ini/gkey files + libemeraldengine but GWD gconf + metacity functions. > > > So basically we would end up with a complete window decorator, ported > > > to a plugin, which is not really what I had in mind. > > > > > > An alternative would be, remaining the current structure of having > > > several decorator running as an own application and expand emerald to > > > an highly-customizeable and extentable decorator, which relies on > > > plugin architecture. The main goal of that decorator would be to > > > provide an independently theme and other rather experimental things > > > like animations. > > > > > > This architecture is shown in this schema: > > > http://media.beryl-project.org/Decoration-Schema2.png > > > > <snip> > > > > You're welcome to improve emerald, rewrite it or write a completely new > > decorator, I'm definitely not going to stand in the way of that. > > However, I suggest that you avoid duplicating work when not necessary > > and avoid creating alternatives to existing solutions. > > > > libdecoration contains code that is used by all decorators. If you find > > some code that makes sense for more than one decorator, it likely makes > > sense to put that code in libdecoration. > > > > What's missing in current decorators? The following is what I think is > > missing and how it's most properly fixed. > > One thing that the old original Emerald window decorator did was support > button effects, some of these effects like the glow effect. I don't know if > Emerald-2 or compiz deal with specific button effects themselves?
Kwin plugins and a possible future metacity theme engine could do whatever button effects they like. - David _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
