diff --git a/HOWTO_MAKE_SYSTEM_NOT_SUCK.README b/HOWTO_MAKE_SYSTEM_NOT_SUCK.README deleted file mode 100644 index 82ce8a1588..0000000000 --- a/HOWTO_MAKE_SYSTEM_NOT_SUCK.README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -If you tried the system window manager style you probably noticed it's not -too nice looking using the standard KDE color scheme. This is because this -is the first style to use a kwin extended color configuration and needs some -additional entries in order to look decent. - -Try using the "System" color scheme in kcmdisplay to make it look rather cool. -You'll need to restart kwin because it doesn't handle this dynamically yet. - -Daniel M. Duley -mosfet@kde.org -mosfet@linuxmandrake.com - - diff --git a/README.KRASH b/README.KRASH new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3e81f1d3cd --- /dev/null +++ b/README.KRASH @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Important notes on KWin for the Krash (1.89) developers release: + +Contents: +* Muliple Style Support +* Memory Usage +* Theme Support +* Things removed for Krash + +* Multiple Style Support And Themes: +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 efficent. + +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: +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 +