[RFC] Re: : Drop support for Compiz in KDecoration

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Friday 15 March 2013 17:44:23 Thomas Lübking wrote:
> On Freitag, 15. März 2013 14:38:45 CEST, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > 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]).
> 
> Actually it makes the bridge more or less pointless :-(
> 
> > Given that it seems like nobody is still using Compiz instead
> > of KWin I do not see why we should continue to support it.
> 
> Even iff, there's no discontinue at all - there's just a coordination issue
> between two projects.
> > Comments?
> 
> I'm not 100% sure, but if compiz/libdecoration.so is (rather?!) ABI stable,
> whoever wants to maintain compiz-decorator-kde (unlikely canonical...)
> could preferably do in KDE (/extragear?) where we can easily keep it
> compatible (to the internal KWin API) resp. it would then release in sync
> with KDE (or later on KWin)
I had suggested that to the Compiz devs years ago, but they didn't want. [1]
--
Martin Gräßlin
[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2011-January/003451.html
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