[Kwintv] UI-Widget separation, alpha2?

[Richard Moore]

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 10:16, Dirk Ziegelmeier wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 October 2003 11:59, Zsolt Rizsanyi wrote:
> > The only thing that became worse is, that in TV mode the window title bar
> > does not changes to that narrow one it used to. (I think it was done
> > using the tool window hint with the window manager.)
> > If that could be fixed that would be cool. But I'm willing to trade that
> > for the working keyboard shortcuts :)
>
> I'd like to, but (on my box) these hints are ignored, it seems KWin does
> not change the decoration of an existing window. In the "old" design, a new
> window was created by reparenting the tv widget.

There are some gotcha's to reparenting window when they're used by Xv. It 
seems that some drivers get very annoyed. I'm not saying that this code can't 
be improved, just that it will need quite a bit of testing.

Cheers

Rich.