Created:
26th October, 2008

Almost nothing happened

Not much happened this week in KWin, not much at all.

The most important thing that happened this week was most likely the internal discussions about KWin in KDE 4.3. We spent around 3-5 hours talking about how we could add ARGB support to decorations without wasting large amounts of memory and bogging down the system with unneeded processing. As most of these were solved I can pretty much say with 95% certainty that KDE 4.3 will support KWin decorations with alpha transparencies.

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27th October, 2008nas

I love the appearance KDE is getting, is damn sexy and original!

27th October, 2008Maattd

Congratulations for all your work on improving Kwin. A question anyway : did you drop tiling windows management for the TODO list ?

27th October, 2008Lucas Murray

“A question anyway : did you drop tiling windows management for the TODO list ?”
— Maattd

Yes, due to time constraints on my part I have dropped window tiling for KWin and do not know when I will pick it up again. Here’s the message I posted on bugs.kde.org:

“Window tiling has been put on the shelf indefinitely. If anyone would like to add this feature themselves feel free to contact me as I am fine with mentoring, just keep in mind that it will require a large amount of time and commitment to implement completely (Leaving it uncompleted will make it useless so it’s pretty much an all-or-nothing feature). I have a nice stash of ideas and techniques that could be used of both static and dynamic tiling in KWin that could be of use.”
— Lucas Murray

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