RFC: runtime switching between desktop and device UI

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 03 August 2012, Martin Graesslin wrote:
> 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 :-)

and if the splashscreen is started again it may cover up it (just a little ;)

Cheers,
Marco Martin