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This document is for creating the 4.0 release notes. There are 3 parts:
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- the notes themselves
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- comments and todo's about what should be added to them
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- comments about what should be in the accompanying kwin 4.0 video
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TODO - check all XXX notes
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4.0 release notes
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=================
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@ -14,12 +7,11 @@ KWin, the standard KDE window manager, in KDE4.0 ships with the first version
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of built-in support for compositing, making it also a compositing manager.
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This allows KWin to provide advanced graphical effects, like for example with Compiz,
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while also providing all the features from previous KDE releases (such as very good
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intergration with the rest of KDE, advanced configurability, well-tested window manager, etc.).
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intergration with the rest of KDE, advanced configurability, focus stealing prevention,
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well-tested window manager, robust handling of misbehaving applications/toolkits, etc.).
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Unlike Compiz, KWin still functions even when no system support for compositing is
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available, with only compositing features not being available in such case.
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XXX probably stress more the various strengths of KWin, to reduce the 'why not Compiz' nonsense
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Previous KWin versions in later KDE3.x releases included a standalone compositing
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manager called kompmgr, based on the xcompmgr compositing manager. Kompmgr was only
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loosely tied with KWin, used only XRender for rendering and provided only basic
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If you cannot enable desktop effects, it may be because either your KDE is not built
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with necessary support, or more probably because your system is not capable of providing
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compositing support. See file
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XXX http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kwin/COMPOSITE_HOWTO
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http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kwin/COMPOSITE_HOWTO
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for some instructions on setting up your system. Note that there may be other factors
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affecting whether you do or do not have compositing support.
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There are more features that are not enabled by default and need to be explicitly enabled
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in the configuration.
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XXX link to 4.0 kwin video
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XXX note the kwin_composite tag at youtube
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There are various videos showing various compositing features of KWin. For example,
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search for 'kwin_composite' at youtube.com (please keep in mind that many of those windows
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are old and show testing or demo effects).
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= Performance =
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You will probably need to switch to text mode or start failsafe session from KDM to be
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able to perform this.
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See file
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XXX http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kwin/COMPOSITE_HOWTO
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See file http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kwin/COMPOSITE_HOWTO
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for some issues with various graphics cards.
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XXX See other sections below for further possible problems.
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= XRender mode =
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At the time of the KDE4.0 release, API for compositing effects is unfortunately only sparsely
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documented. Developers interested in writing compositing effects for KWin are suggested
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to use source code of effects shipped with KWin (the Howto effect as the starting point)
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XXX link to kwin sources?
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and/or ask on the KWin mailing list XXX link.
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and/or ask on the KWin mailing list.
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Links to various KWin-related documents are available at XXX http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin .
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Comments
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Video
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Links to various KWin-related documents are available at http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin .
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