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Looking a Novell gift horse in the mouth
Looking a Novell gift horse in the mouth
Posted Feb 9, 2006 17:44 UTC (Thu) by carcassonne (guest, #31569)Parent article: Looking a Novell gift horse in the mouth
Hmmm... Why didn't they used KDE instead for showing off this Xgl stuff ?
And why is it tied to Gnome ? Shouldn't it be some kind of layer that everybody can use ? (sorry for the potentionaly dumb question (notice the singular))
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Looking a Novell gift horse in the mouth
Posted Feb 9, 2006 19:04 UTC (Thu) by mightyduck (subscriber, #23760) [Link]
> Hmmm... Why didn't they used KDE instead for showing off this Xglstuff ?
Because it comes from the KDE-haters at Ximian. But KDE will make use of
it anyway in KDE 4.
Looking a Novell gift horse in the mouth
Posted Feb 9, 2006 23:58 UTC (Thu) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link]
It's not tied to GNOME. XGL is just the very basic rendering infrastructure (same as X), and Compiz is a fully pluggable compositing manager. What we know as window managers essentially become 'decorator' plugins or libraries for Compiz to render. They just didn't bother to write a Qt/KDE based plugin for decorations (but there's a spot for it in the tree already).
It is, oddly enough, exactly what you demand. :-)