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Re: [trinity-devel] Re: Mac Like Switching Patch

From: Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@...>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:40:30 +0200
Am 22.04.2012 01:44, schrieb Tiago Marques:
>> guys, I'm pretty unhappy that you still continue to develop on the 
>> KWin
>> fork. This is a functionality recently added to KWin and it is 
>> really
>> disappointing to see that our all spare time is wasted by the 
>> duplicated
>> efforts.
>>
>> Can't we try to at least work a little bit together? E.g. if you 
>> want to
>> add some functionality to your fork to at *at least* check with us 
>> whether
>> we have the functionality? And would it be asked too much if you *at 
>> least*
>> try to upstream changes? The complete Alt+Tab functionality in 
>> modern KWin
>> is decoupled from KWin core, you could just copy and paste the files 
>> and
>> call it a day.
>>
>> Still I want to point out that the best solution would be to join 
>> efforts
>> and dropping the KWin fork in TDE. It would save so much work and 
>> KWin
>> master can as of today be build without any further dependencies to
>> kde-workspace, we will soon be able to compile KWin with a different 
>> name
>> (already used by Kubuntu for KWin in Plasma Active) and after our 
>> feature
>> freeze I will make it possible to create a custom KWin without 
>> compiling
>> anything from kde-workspace. That sounds great, doesn't it?
>>
>>
> That does sound great. Any more dependencies that could only interest 
> KDE4,
> despite not the core, or would this actually be cleaner now?
sorry, I don't get the question.

Martin