On Sunday 08 March 2009 22:56, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes#Why_not_Compiz.3F Interesting read. In a nutshell, it seems to be a tradeoff between reinventing the window manager vs. reinventing desktop effects, and the KDE developers decided to do the latter. AFAICS, this is based on three arguments: 1) Compiz doesn't work if compositing is not supported by hardware, 2) KWin is already developed, well-tested, mostly bugfree, 3) KWin has better "desktop integration" into KDE than Compiz. I understand the first two arguments, but the third escapes me. What is "desktop integration" specifically? The basic operations of a window manager are to move, resize, minimize, maximize etc. windows, manage desktops/workspaces, and similar. Could you name one specific task that I can do with KWin and cannot do with Compiz (both running inside KDE)? What of KDE am I missing while running Compiz instead of KWin? I have it setup that way since F9, and was never aware of any major features missing, so I would appreciate some insight. Best, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
