porting the QtCurve kwin theme

[Martin Graesslin]

On Thursday, June 16, 2016 11:15:22 PM CEST René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It was pointed out to me by an OpenSuse maintainer that the QtCurve Qt5
> implementation doesn't contain a (functional) window theme.
> 
> I'm not exactly the most likely candidate to address this as I don't
> currently have a system running a Plasma5 desktop, but I do now have KWin5
> installed in my parallel prefix, from where it can replace the system's
> KWin4 . How complicated is it to port a KDE4 kwin style/decoration to KF5,
> I presume that means using KDecoration2? Is there a guidebook somewhere
> online?

Yes, a port to KDecoration2 is required. No, there is no guidebook for that. 
The required effort is difficult to estimate as it depends on the actual 
implementation. Whether it uses KCommonDecoration or KDecoration.

Don't try to start the KWin 5 instance to test it, use kdecoration-viewer:

Cheers
Martin
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