locker effect in KDE/4.7 for Active

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Saturday 24 September 2011 03:37:28 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> If it's a self-contained effect that does not rely on patches to KWin itself, just release 
> a separate tarball like BeClock does. Not sure about feature freeze dates but maybe at 
> least openSUSE and Fedora could pick it up and ship it that way.
well it is not:
a) it requires changes in the effects ABI
b) it requires changes in KWin core
c) it cannot be build standalone.

If that would be possible we would have come to this trivial solution ourselves ;-)

Cheers
Martin
> 
> Markus
> 
> On Freitag 23 September 2011 18:08:02 Marco Martin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > in the branch active-development/screenlocker there is a (quite gross, some
> > folders got just copied) merge of the screen locker effect to KDE/4.7
> > 
> > this is something quite important for the first release of Plasma Active in
> > October, that will depend from the KDE/4.7 branch of kde-workspace.
> > however this is both not so clean and a really big feature to be really
> > merged in 4.7, so i don't know if is an option,
> > others could be to package active-development/screenlocker (but we wanted
> > to get away from branches) or just ship a mannoth diff in the rpm spec
> > (260k ;)
> > 
> > even if sound quite heavy i would be for the third option...
> > 
> > ideas? opinions?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Marco Martin
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