On Monday, April 23, 2012 17:42:42 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > My expectation from the sprint is that we will figure out a new interaction > of the shell and windowing system which is not possible at the moment. We > have pretty much reached what's possible with Plasma tells KWin what to do. > But turning it around (Plasma becomes a plugin to KWin) will give us > complete new possibilities which I will start to explore as soon as we are > in feature freeze.
i am currently very, very sceptical about this approach. this is because it is
a set of statements with no foundation.
* what would be the potential improvements?
* what are the realistic improvements?
* why can't it be done with the current way it is done?
* why is a whole new shell needed at all?
* do we really want to weld everything together? (this is not zero cost)
* and most importantly: why will the user care?
* what is our end goal / motivation?
anytime i see "a new shell" i get shivers running up and down all the wrong
places of my body.
i've yet to see the above laid out cleanly and until that happens, there's no
way to make a good decision. if we simply state the result before the reasons
are well understood then we may as well bring out the roulette table, spin it
and let it decide what we do next. :)
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Aaron J. Seigo
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