francis.giannaros.org — The desktop effects are coming along nicely, with many plugins available. You will no longer need to run Compiz to get many standard and convenient composite features: they will be available right inside KDE 4. In many cases the plugins improve window management, provide a little eye-candy to the desktop or are just useful in various situations.
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theattacksDec 5, 2007
I didn't say it was "slow" nor did I ever say Vista's Aero ran smoother.
Closed AccountDec 5, 2007
They tried to modify the main project first but since Compiz was based on a completely different set of libraries it did not go well. It was decided that it would be easier just to reconstruct the needed features into KWin instead of doing a full integration.
elyk53Dec 5, 2007
As has been mentioned many times before, the KDE team found it easier to add compositing code to kwin (which apparently is a small percentage of the entire kwin codebase) rather than try and rework their window manager or their desktop envionment to work with compiz. I would like a universal plugin format though
cipher054Dec 6, 2007
thing like these make me prefer the kde wm, and not the other wm(like compiz).
lolo2007Mar 8, 2008
It would be really nice if compiz and kwin could come up with a standard API for creating plugins, so developers could write plugins that would work on either backend (and thus the projects would reach near feature parity). However, I imagine the projects are too different for such a thing to be possible.<a class="user" href="http://download.paramegsoft.com/">http://download.paramegsoft.com/</a><a class="user" href="http://www.paramegsoft.com/forum/">http://www.paramegsoft.com/forum/</a>
dudley9May 25, 2008
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