kwin clients - virtual colorsSupported()?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> Il Tuesday 27 November 2007 17:56:08 Matthew Woehlke ha scritto:
>> aseigo and I have been having a little discussion [1] about kwin colors,
>> the upshot of which seems to be that kwinclients should communicate what
>> colors they support, similar I suppose to how they report what buttons
>> they support.
>>
>> Without knowing kwin very well, my gut reaction is that the "best" way
>> to do this is with a pure virtual, which means making the change *now*
>> since it is BIC+SIC. (aseigo says a getter+setter can be done BC but
>> agrees that a virtual is probably better.)
>>
>> Lubos, your thoughts?
>>
>> 1: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.general/51132
> 
> I'm not against it, but I'm not sure kwin decoration ABI is really considered 
> unchangable. After all, it affects only decorations which tend to be 
> non-critical and mostly shipped with KDE.
> 
> So I'm not sure we should really rush things.

If it's OK for kwin to break BC, then I'm all for waiting for 4.1. 
Otherwise, what I am envisioning is basically something that returns an 
enum list (I guess good old QFlags, i.e. 31 values will be enough*), 
which can start out as the basic colors we know we will have, and be 
grown in a BC way. Nothing complicated, nothing I'm too worried about.

(* Especially if we make Inactive a single flag, i.e. "yes I know the 
difference between active and inactive windows", implicitly requiring an 
active and inactive flavor of each WM color role.)

-- 
Matthew
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