29 Apr
2012
29 Apr
'12
10:24 p.m.
Martin Gräßlin wrote:
Alright, thank you very much! I managed to compile it now. I used these
options:
-DWITH_OpenGL=ON -DKWIN_BUILD_XRENDER_COMPOSITING=ON
-DKWIN_BUILD_ACTIVITIES=OFF
I suppose I could even leave out the first two, as I guess they are on
by default as well.
Other than activities (which doesn't seem like a large difference to me
for a fully separate build) are there other things I could disable? I
guess the webpage you linked to doesn't let all the new options from the
GIT version yet? Maybe there is also a list in the source tree?
Yep, I expected it. I guess it's also a limitation of GIT. It makes more
sense to hope GIT will one day support it rather then going through the
all effort to split kwin out now I think.
Thanks,
Julius
On Saturday 28 April 2012 23:56:01 Julius
Schwartzenberg wrote:
I would say there are more. Like Sawfish and Metacity which were
originally used as part of Gnome, but are now also on their own.
Martin Gräßlin wrote:
That's true, but those window managers can
be used standalone (e.g. openbox)
while that is not the case with KWin. Given the mission statement KWin is not
meant to be used as a standalone window manager but together with a Desktop
Shell. But honestly I doubt that Ubuntu would include
any Trinity specific
version of KWin given that there are no other packages for Trinity
available.
Yes, that's true. But wouldn't you agree that this package
would be
suitable for more than just Trinity? :) There are more window-managers
packaged that are not related to a specific DE. I would treat this
version of kwin4 as such as well. The idea is that each Desktop Shell which uses KWin
has to provide it's own
KWin as currently done by the KDE Plasma Desktop/Netbook workspaces and KDE
Plasma Active.
Yes, then it would indeed seem to make sense to ship it with Trinity
maybe. Let's see. In the end, the goal is to also get Trinity itself
into distributions.
cmake
-DNepomuk_FOUND=FALSE -DWITH_OpenGL=OFF -DKWIN_PLASMA_ACTIVE=OFF \
-DKWIN_BUILD_XRENDER_COMPOSITING=OFF -DKWIN_BUILD_ACTIVITIES=OFF \
../kde-workspace
You don't need to have -DKWIN_PLASMA_ACTIVE=OFF - that's
the default.
My recommendation would be to keep OpenGL enabled (disabling OpenGL means you
use OpenGL ES which is not supported by all hardware) and also XRender
enabled. Turning off Nepomuk btw has no influence on KWin, it's a leftover
from my Jenkins when I built complete workspace instead of just KWin.
Are my KDE libraries too old?
no you found
a combination which does not build (disabling XRender). I have
not yet set up my Jenkins to build all combinations. This will be done when we
are in feature freeze and I have time for such things :-) One small
thing. Right now it is necessary to check out the complete
kde-workspace to compile kwin. It would seem easier if kwin would be
separate from the rest of kde-workspace. Or does kwin depend on most of
kde-workspace anyhow?
It only depends indirectly. The default window decoration
Oxygen requires
another lib from kde-workspace (can be disabled by build option to turn off
decorations) and two D-Bus interfaces are generated at compilation.
Unfortunately it is non-trivial to split out kwin from kde-workspace as it's
one git repository and the code moved around in the past quite often.