Status of compiz(-fusion) for KDE

[dragoran]

Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> Am Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:29:03 -0400
> schrieb "Kristian Høgsberg" <krh at bitplanet.net>:
>
>   
>> On 9/26/07, Sebastian Vahl <ml at deadbabylon.de> wrote:
>>     
>>> What's the actual plan for the kde side of compiz? I was asked some
>>> time ago to replace beryl with compiz(-fusion) on the KDE-LiveCD.
>>> ATM compiz is lacking a configuration tool (former beryl-settings)
>>> and also maybe a switcher for kwin <-> compiz (Kevin Kofler is
>>> investigating these atm).
>>>       
>> We now have a compiz-kde pacakge that has the kde-window-decorator and
>> the GNOME specific bits are split into compiz-gnome.  As for
>> configuration tools, I'm thinking that they can be packaged up as
>> separate RPMs and people can pick the tool they prefer.
>>     
>
> Putting the configuration tools in separate packages would be the best -
> at least for the size of the livecds. But compiz itself seems only to
> work when started with gconf as plugin (which is in compiz-gnome). A
> simple:
>  compiz --replace &
>  kde-window-decorator --replace &
> seems not to work. I may be wrong in that, because it was only a quick
> test today. If I find some time I will investigate this and open a bug.
>
>   
you have to pass a configuration backend to compiz
compiz --replace ini & should work.
the kconfig backend is not in the stable (0.6) branch yet.
so it will be in compiz 0.8 when it gets released which is too late for F8.