Bug 125527

Summary:	kwin should be able to use compiz plugins
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Yves Glodt <yg>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Yves Glodt 2006-04-13 19:53:28 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

Subject says it all :-)

Compiz plugins start to be developed by people, would be great if kwin would just be able
to take advantage of that.

Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2006-04-15 17:18:29 UTC

What are compiz plugins? What do they do? What dependencies do they bring? Why should they be loaded by the window manager?

Comment 2 Victor-Philipp Busch 2006-04-18 13:28:31 UTC

Hi Thiago, here are the informations about the plugins: http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz and http://en.opensuse.org/Using_Xgl_on_SUSE_Linux#Using_compiz_as_your_window_manager

All effects and features for XGL are plugins for the compiz-windowmanager. So you can rotate your desktop or resized very fast and beautiful.

Comment 3 Yves Glodt 2006-04-18 13:45:12 UTC

Thanks Victor for your research!

As far as dependencies go, compiz itself stores parameters in the gconf "registry" (eeek).

It as to be investigated whether compiz takes these parameters and passes them to the plugins on load, or if it's the plugins that access gconf themselves (which would be less optimal for kde, to say the least).

Comment 4 Lubos Lunak 2006-04-19 19:23:59 UTC

Your contributions are welcome.