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Re: [trinity-devel] Re: Resolving the TWin/KWin Fork Issue

From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:13:35 +0200
On Sunday 29 of April 2012 18:42:34 Martin Gr��lin wrote:
> The Trinity Desktop Environment is a fork of KDE 3.5. KDE 3.5 used as
> desktop shell KDesktop and Kicker and as a window manager KWin. TWin is
> the fork of this version of KWin. Obviously KWin is very well integrated
> with the rest of the desktop environment (e.g. uses same toolkit) and
> has been developed especially for the needs of this environment in
> comparison to things like openbox which is actually a standalone window
> manager and includes things you don't need. Using openbox will therefore
> result in higher RAM consumption than using KWin.
> 

So you said this very descriptive! KWin4 is tightly integrated with rest 
of desktop environment == KDE4 (uses the same toolkit, etc). And just as 
TWin is tightly integrated with rest of desktop environment == TDE (uses 
the same toolkit, etc). Each lives in a different environment. KWin is 
NOT integrated with TDE and includes things that we do not need. Using 
KWin4 means outside TQt3 still have QT4 tooklit == higher RAM consumption 
than using TWin.

Sl�vek
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