Status of compiz(-fusion) for KDE

[Sebastian Vahl]

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.


> > And there are also some (maybe dumb) questions:
> > - Will compiz(-fusion) obsolete beryl in the future?
> 
> I'm not planning to make the compiz rpm obsolete the beryl rpm, but
> upstream, the two projects have merged and I don't expect the fedora
> beryl rpms to see much activitiy.

Good to know. Thanks. So sticking to beryl on the KDE-LiveCD is the
only option I have atm.

> > - Is there a equivalent to beryl-manager that may be usuable for
> > switching kwin<->compiz (like beryl-manager does for beryl)?
> 
> I don't know, there may be, if there is something usable out there we
> can add it to the compiz-kde package or the appropriate parts of the
> KDE packages.

There seems to be a backend being developed at:
http://gitweb.opencompositing.org/?p=fusion/compizconfig/compizconfig-backend-kconfig;a=summary
But (again) I haven't tested this (yet) and cannot say if it's usuable.
There's also existing an inofficial repo containing these configuration
tools:
http://wiki.kagesenshi.org/moin.fcgi/CategoryPackages/CompizFusion

Maybe he is willing to package them directly in Fedora.

Sebastian


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