Many reasons have been brought up over the years for why this effect is
not appropriate to be enabled by default:
- It was designed to highlight the whizzy technical feature of being
able to make windows transparent, which is no longer particularly
impressive today.
- It looks visually dated.
- It can produce a confusing visual soup by blending a window being
moved or resized with the content below it, which we recently disabled
for the Highlight Windows effect.
- If one window is covering up another as a way to deliberately hide the
content of the lower window, this effect will reveal the hidden
content whenever the upper window is moved or resized at all.
Overall it does not seem to have enough advantages to offset these
issues. Let's disable it by default--but only for the people who did not
modify its configuration at all. We can assume that those people like
it, so let's keep it on for them.
BUG: 384054
FIXED-IN: 5.23
Closes Phab task T7915
Once in a while, we receive complaints from other fellow KDE developers
about the file organization of kwin. This change addresses some of those
complaints by moving all of source code in a separate directory, src/,
thus making the project structure more traditional. Things such as tests
are kept in their own toplevel directories.
This change may wreak havoc on merge requests that add new files to kwin,
but if a patch modifies an already existing file, git should be smart
enough to figure out that the file has been relocated.
We may potentially split the src/ directory further to make navigating
the source code easier, but hopefully this is good enough already.
