[RFC]: Drop support for Compiz in KDecoration

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Friday, March 15, 2013 14:38:45 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> this is a small request for comments where I would like to get some
> comments  for. That is I don't want to go ahead without consensus.
> 
> Since [1] KWin has the internal KDecorationBridge as a public part of the 
> KDecoration API to allow Compiz to implement it. This is rather unfortunate
> as  it makes our life more difficult as we cannot extend our internal API
> without doing subclassing and all that effort (see for example [2]).
> 
> Given that it seems like nobody is still using Compiz instead of KWin I do
> not  see why we should continue to support it. Therefore I want to request
> to make KDecorationBridge private again by unexporting the header file. If
> we agree on that I'm going to inform kde-packagers about it, so that they
> can conflict the 4.10 package with compiz-kde.
> 
> To back my claim I checked various distributions:
> * Ubuntu is not shipping kde-window-decorator in compiz-kde since precise
> and  doesn't ship compiz-kde since quantal [3]
> * Arch is shipping an outdated version in the community repo [4]
> * openSUSE is shipping an outdated version [5]
> * Gentoo is shipping an outdated version which is patched for 4.10 [6]
> * Fedora is shipping an outdated Compiz version, but seems to not ship
> compiz- kde [7]
> * Mageia is shipping an up to date version of Compiz (!), whether it
> includes  compiz-kde I couldn't figure out [8]
> 
> In all cases where I wrote outdated version it is the 0.8 branch of compiz, 
> while Canonical is at 0.9.
> 
> If Compiz still wants to support our decorations (which I doubt, though 
> support for appmenu got added end of last year) they would only need to
> fork  the header file and ensure by themselves that it works correctly.

Maybe interesting to know: Did you get any bugreports regarding use of compiz 
in Plasma Desktop lately? And: Compiz is dead upstream, isn't it?
-- 
sebas

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