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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Usage of 2.0 [Re: LinuxWorld Award and KDE-2.0]
From:       Steffen Hansen <stefh () mip ! sdu ! dk>
Date:       1999-07-29 12:39:24
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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Matthias Ettrich wrote:

> > Because KDesky uses the KIconContainer, which is a QScrollView. And
> > unfortunately you can't have a child widget (like the viewport in
> > QScrollView) "in" a desktop widget (WType_Desktop) .
> 
> 
> kwin (kwm's decessor) handles such a desktop window _very_very_ well.  There's
> no performance loss with such a kind of desktop (_if_ KIconContainer handles
> paint events reasonable fast).

Is this a defect in kwm or will kdesktop _require_ kwin to perform well in
the future? If this is the case, i'm not sure i'm pleased with it...
 
> My fault for not commiting kwin, I really have to find the time for that......

You know we're look forward to that :)

BTW: Sorry for bicthing so much lately, i only hope to heighten the
quality of 2.0...

BTW^2: I have used 2.0 exclusively for several days now :)

greetings,
-- 
Steffen Hansen                            
email: stefh@mip.sdu.dk, stefh@imada.sdu.dk, hansen@kde.org 
URL:   http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~stefh       

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