[todo] A way to get KWin* functionality on win32

Lubos Lunak l.lunak at suse.cz
Mon Nov 20 12:10:19 GMT 2006


On Thursday 16 November 2006 20:48, Jarosław Staniek wrote:
> BTW, in the context of KWin* discussion:
>
> The idea[*] is to reuse VirtuaWin (http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/), a
> GPL'd project adding virtual desktop experience to the Windows OS. Having
> this, KWin* classes of the KDE API can work as expected, at least
> partially. This feature is aimed at power users that require virtual
> desktops, however.
>
> This idea is noted down at http://www.kdelibs.com/wiki/index.php/Ideas
>
> [*] low priority, unless there's a volunteer

 Very low priority IMHO. Virtual desktops are usually transparent to 
applications and they should not need to care/know about them, so, unless you 
intend to port also things like KPager, just having simple functions that 
pretent there's exactly one virtual desktop on Windows should do.

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