Rethinking global shortcuts

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Friday 08 February 2013 22:25:13 Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday, February 07, 2013 14:33:47 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> >> the "start other window manager" feature(/bug? ;)
> > 
> > In the new world, this might be an old concept that we don't have to drag
> > over. The traditional need for this will probably be mostly gone.
> > 
> > If we want to remove it, the move to Wayland would be a good opportunity.
> 
> I'd prefer to stick to the "old concept".
Fact is that it won't be possible in the Wayland world. Why? With which 
compositor would you want to exchange KWin in a Wayland world?
* Compiz? Ubuntu is apparently working on an own Windowing System which is 
neither X nor Wayland
* Mutter? Unlikely it will ever work with anything except GNOME Shell
* Weston? Possible, but it's also containing a desktop shell and will Weston 
provide features needed by Plasma? Will they implement features we will need? 
Unlikely (why should they add support for a desktop shell which has it's own 
compositor).
* Expecting another Wayland compositor? I don't
--
Martin Gräßlin
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