A decoration can provide the AbilityAnnounceAlphaChannel in addition to
AbilityUsesAlphaChannel. If this ability is provided the decoration can
enable/disable the use of the alpha channel through setAlphaEnabled().
The base idea behind this mechanism is to be able to tell the compositor
that currently alpha is not needed. An example is the maximized state in
which the decoration is fully opaque so that there is no need to use the
translucency code path which would render all windows behind the deco.
In addition also the blur effect honors this setting so that behind a
known opaque decoration no blurring is performed.
Oxygen is adjusted to disable translucency in maximized state and Aurorae
is adjusted to allow themes to enable/disable translucency. For Plastik
translucency and with that also blurring is disabled.
REVIEW: 106810
Nobody is interested in whether the Abilities are supported.
There is one method in KWin core checking for the colors
supported by the currently loaded decoration:
Workspace::decorationSupportedColors
This method is not called from anywhere inside KWin, but is
part of the D-Bus interface, though nobody in KDE's repository
is calling it [1].
As it is part of public API the Abilities are only deprecated
and scheduled for removal with the next big break.
[1] http://lxr.kde.org/search?filestring=&string=decorationSupportedColors
REVIEW: 105785
As discussed on the mailinglist [1] the tiling support is
removed from KWin. The main reasons for this step are:
* it is unmaintained
* it is a mode not used by any of the core KWin team
* original developer said at Akademy 2012 that he is not
interested in picking up the work again
* tiling has quite some bugs, e.g. multi screen not supported
* is conflicting with other concepts in KWin, e.g. activities
There is ongoing work to get tiling supported through a KWin
script, which is a preferred way as it does not influence the
existing C++ code base.
[1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&m=133149673110558&w=2
BUG: 303090
FIXED-IN: 4.10
REVIEW: 105546
This slot can be reimplemented by the decoration to return
the regions defined by KDecorationDefines::Region.
The only region defined initially is ExtendedBorderRegion.
This region specifies an invisible input region that can extend
both inside and outside the decoration.
The intended use case is to be able to have an active border
area that's larger than the visible borders.
Drawbound was nowadays only used when compositing is disabled.
For the composited case, the drawbound was replaced by the resize
effect and in fact we should always just use the resize effect.
REVIEW: 101411
The KDecoration library lives in libkdecorations/ now.
Installation pathes are unchanged, so this does not influence 3rd party
decorations.
The changes in the KWin main directory are required due to incorrect
includes.
CCMAIL: kwin@kde.org
