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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: KWin
From:       Kevin Forge <forge () myrealbox ! com>
Date:       2000-12-20 14:56:35
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OK.  That makes more sense.  Reading the specks on KWin during the 
2.0 BETA cycle it seamed like you wouldn't need to write a new WM 
until you came up with a faster way to reinvent the KWin wheel or
a new WM feature that was simply never contemplated at the creation
of KWin.

mosfet wrote:
> 
> KWin has a plugin architecture tho handle it's look and feel. These are
> called "clients". We have one for the default, one for Next, etc... There
> will also be one to handle KWM (KDE1.x Window manager) themes and settings.
> There is also nothing stopping people from making IceWM, Sawfish, etc...
> compatible clients - all with only having to write the code to handle the
> look and feel while KWin does the rest :)
> 
> On Tuesday 19 December 2000 02:25 pm, Kevin Forge wrote:
> > Did I get that right ?  You have gone off and writen a whole new WM
> > and recicled the old "KWM" name ?
> >
> > On Tuesday 19 December 2000 14:20, mosfet wrote:
> > > It's not the "Suse Theme", since I wrote it and I work for Mandrake ;-)
> > > It's simply the new decoration in CVS for KDE2.1 - not 2.01. The other
> > > stuff will be in the KWM client, which won't be in KDE2.1 but in CVS
> > > soon.
> > >
> > > On Monday 18 December 2000 09:41 pm, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> > > > I had heard that KWin in 2.01 would use the "SuSE Theme" as the default
> > > > window decoration. However, it appears it still uses the (no offense)
> > > > ***UGLY*** one that was in 2.0. Will SuSE's decoration be default in
> > > > KDE 2.1, or will something else replace the old one?
> > > > BTW, is there any chance KDE 1.x's decorations might someday be
> > > > recreated fully? The one in KDE 2.0 lacks the gradient background that
> > > > made it look so nice in the past.
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