RFC: Removing of decorations

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Mon Mar 12 17:36:16 UTC 2012


On Monday 12 March 2012 10:54:52 Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote:
> 1. I'm all for removing the unmaintained decoration.
> 2. I'm not sure about the rationale for moving oxygen's (deco) out of
> kwin tree.
> It is a decoration client, and therefore would best stay is in
> kwin/clients.
> (especially since it has to be build on top of kwin, unlike oxygen's
> "libs" and oxygen's "style").
> 
> As for the argument "having all oxygen's code in one place". Well, that
> would also require to have oxygen's widget style and oxygen's lib at the
> same place.  (which one ?). And you would still need a "liboxygen.so"
> anyway, I think, for the code that is shared by the widget style and the
> decoration.
> 
> This to say, what would the moving actually address, solve ?
> (you do need to build kwin anyway in order to build oxygen's client).
I thought that Oxygen would have wanted to have all code in one place and that 
this has never been possible because the deco has to be inside kwin.

Cheers
Martin
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