28 Apr
2012
28 Apr
'12
10:14 p.m.
On Saturday 28 April 2012 23:56:01 Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
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.
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.
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. 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.
Cheers
Martin