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