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Important notes on KWin for the 2.0 Betas:
Contents
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* Multiple Style Support And Themes
* Memory Usage
* Theme Support
Multiple Style Support And Themes
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KWin now supports multiple styles in the same fashion as KDE widgets
although the KWin support is much less complete as of this time. The
mechanism is very similar - KWin can allocate different client decoration
code at runtime in order to decorate the windows. This means that
developers can easily code window manager styles that do absolutely
anything they can think of. It also means that for simple look and feels
using a theme engine is not required but can be coded directly into a
window manager component, making it very efficient.
Right now the infrastructure to support this is in development. Most
importantly, dynamic loading of client style components is not
implemented. The ones currently available are actually compiled into the
window manager. This is not good and will be resolved prior to beta
releases. Compiling all the styles currently entails a lot of overhead.
Secondly, color schemes that are applicable to one style don't necessarily
look good in another. For example, the default color scheme for the
standard style looks horrible on System and neither color scheme really
looks good on Next. In the future styles will be able to set their own
default color scheme. Until then you must set them yourself. Color schemes
for System and Next are provided. Also note that currently style gradient
calculation is not dynamic - so it is important to set the color scheme
before the style. All this will be resolved before release.
Memory Usage
------------
Right now the memory usage of KWin can be high due to all the compiled-in
styles mentioned above. The window manager itself is actually very lean.
Once component loading is complete you will be able to see that ;-)
Theme Support
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A KWM theme compatible plugin is mostly done and will be announced shortly.
A new theme plugin is also in the works but not ready at this time.
Daniel M. Duley <mosfet@kde.org>