kwin vs kwinactive

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Monday 29 October 2012 21:50:47 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday, October 29, 2012 21:11:32 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > On Monday 29 October 2012 20:54:49 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > hi all,
> > > i seen that when kwin is built as "kwinactive" executable it takes its
> > > config from kwinactiverc, but the rules are still taken from
> > > kwinrulesrc,
> > > shouldn't it be kwinactiverulesrc as well? (to have different sets, ie
> > > one
> > > would want the fullscreen prevention only on kwinactive)
> > 
> > we currently do not ship any rules for active and given that the kcm is
> > not
> > compiled for kwinactive, I am not sure whether it is needed.
> 
> Marco wrote his email because we are probably going to be shipping rules for
> active; we ran into an issue with applications written for Nemo where
> things are done a bit differently. i'm guessing that's what motivated his
> mail.
ah yes, then it would make sense to change that part, too. Especially if the 
rules are useless for the desktop case.
> 
> this will become a bigger issue, btw, when we implement proper runtime shell
> switching. as soon as Plasma Desktop is all-singing/all-dancing QML, i'm
> hoping this will allow us to switch workspace concepts by simply destroying
> and loading a new set of QML (no process restart!).
> 
> .. and this, i fear, is where our use of environment variables is likely to
> let us down.
> 
> i'm quite tempted to move these things into a kded module that keeps track
> of the workspace type details and publishes them via a dbus service ... but
> this is a discussion for another day and another thread.
*nods* ;-)
> 
> --
> Aaron J. Seigo
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