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Important notes on KWin for the Krash (1.89) developers release:
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Contents:
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* Muliple Style Support
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* Memory Usage
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* Theme Support
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* Multiple Style Support And Themes:
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KWin now supports multiple styles in the same fashion as KDE widgets although
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the KWin support is much less complete as of this time. The mechanism is very
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similar - KWin can allocate different client decoration code at runtime in
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order to decorate the windows. This means that developers can easily code
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window manager styles that do absolutely anything they can think of. It also
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means that for simple look and feels using a theme engine is not required but
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can be coded directly into a window manager component, making it very efficent.
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Right now the infrastructure to support this is in development. Most
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importantly, dynamic loading of client style components is not implemented.
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The ones currently available are actually compiled into the window manager.
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This is not good and will be resolved prior to beta releases. Compiling all
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the styles currently entails a lot of overhead.
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Secondly, color schemes that are applicable to one style don't necessarily
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look good in another. For example, the default color scheme for the standard
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style looks horrible on System and neither color scheme really looks good on
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Next. In the future styles will be able to set their own default color scheme.
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Until then you must set them yourself. Color schemes for System and Next are
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provided. Also note that currently style gradient calculation is not dynamic -
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so it is important to set the color scheme before the style. All this will
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be resolved before release.
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* Memory Usage:
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Right now the memory usage of KWin can be high due to all the compiled-in
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styles mentioned above. The window manager itself is actually very lean. Once
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component loading is complete you will be able to see that ;-)
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* Theme Support:
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A KWM theme compatible plugin is mostly done and will be announced shortly.
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A new theme plugin is also in the works but not ready at this time.
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Daniel M. Duley
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mosfet@kde.org
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