RFC: runtime switching between desktop and device UI

[Martin Graesslin]

On Friday 03 August 2012 19:09:26 Marco Martin wrote:
> Since we have now the shells as different executables, as well as kwin vs
> kwinactive with different configurations, i was thinking: why not providing
> a config ui to allow switching on the fly without killing all the apps?
>From a KWin perspective that sounds like a good idea. Only disadvantage would 
be the flickering of the newly started window manager. But I want to get that 
to a very short time, best a perfect handover of the compositor window for 
4.10. I restart kwin too often and it annoys me :-)

Cheers
Martin