Andy wrote:
> If a switch to KWin4 would mean that new releases of TDE no longer work on
> RHEL6 and clones then I think this is a very bad move.

Initially I would expect kwin4 to be shipped next to twin, so this issue
will never occur.

Also, I do not think the impact of shipping a Trinity specific Qt4 that
only contains the dependencies needed for kwin4 would be a huge issue.
Maybe it is even possible to compile kwin4 statically on such platforms?

Basically what is needed now is that a Trinity (or maybe just a non-KDE4
specific package?) is provided. The next step would be testing.

Then maybe some work could be done to enable configuration in a proper
way. Of course right now configuration would be a mess because each DE
has its own Control Center/System Settings and the window managers that
exist now all integrate into their original target DE only regarding
configuration.


My prediction, as someone who is just observing:

Nothing is going to happen on the Trinity side regarding this (soon).
Not because people are not interested, but because of limited developer
resources. Twin works and the work needed to get kwin4 is cleanly
integrated at least _appears_ to be bigger than keeping twin fixed.
Keeping twin fixed right now is just a single fix at a time. Integrating
kwin4 is a single big job which would prevent regular fixing from the
Trinity side only in the future.
The big job is just not appealing at this time.

If the two steps I indicated above could be done by others, I would give
kwin4 adoption by Trinity a much bigger chance of succeeding.

Maybe the kwin4 developers themselves could provide a stripped-down
version of kwin4 for multiple popular distributions? I would imagine
starting with adding a kwin-lite package to Debian/Ubuntu which would
only have the limited set of dependencies. Maybe people on other DEs
would like to use this package as well.

The second problem is the integration of the configuration. This is not
a Trinity+kwin4 specific issue. Also KDE4 and Gnome for example have
issues where two configuration panes are required to configure certain
settings. It would be the cleanest to develop a generic solution for
this through freedesktop.org that can be used by all DEs and WMs.

Once these two problems are solved, I expect Trinity would implement the
required freedesktop.org standards to allow configuration pane
integration with other DEs. I think there is already an option to switch
to another WM in Trinity. I also think Martin's claims about the
superiority of kwin4 over twin are true, so I would expect most Trinity
users to switch to kwin4 because they will enjoy the better experience.
At this point twin will be deprecated.

Julius