On Monday 30 April 2012 04:47:30 jamesg@... wrote:
> At the risk of a repeated question (I've been unable to keep up with this
> thread):
>
> Are there any components of TWin and KWin4 that do not directly interact
> with graphical libraries, compositing, and the like, that are still
> interchangeable or close to interchangeable with each other and their root
> ancestor of KWin3?
>
> My understanding is that a fork is probably necessary given certian
> mutually exclusive objectives (ie Qt3 and legacy support versus
> optimization for the latest hardware),
KWin does not optimize for the latest hardware. It does so for a certain
degree as a compositor but you can just use KWin as a non-compositing window
manager like TWin :-)
> but is there a portion of code
> shared between the two that is basically not part of that fork that we
> might be able to separate out, possibly as a library?
sorry I don't think I get the question correctly.
Are you asking whether there is any code which code be moved from KWin to
TWin? If yes, no, I want to resolve the fork and not create a Frankenstein.
Cheers
Martin
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