Re-Request for review: kompose

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Wed Jul 20 16:35:05 UTC 2005


Orion Poplawski wrote:
> This is my first attempt at packaging a kde app, so there are surely 
> some issues.  In particular, I don´t seem to get an icon in my KDE menu, 
> so I must not be installing icons is the right place or the .desktop 
> file must not be right.
> 
> Description:
> 
> Komposé offers a great new way to manage a big number of windows on 
> different Virtual Desktops. It creates a fullscreen view where every 
> window is represented by a scaled screenshot of its own.
> Thanks to the KDE framework it is possible to create those screenshots 
> "on the fly" while you are working without much overhead. The image 
> scaling is done through the high performance image library Imlib2.
> 
> Since version 0.5 support for the Composite and Damage extensions has 
> been added, which allows us to display window contents without grabbing 
> screenshots. However with the current state of graphics drivers XOrg may 
> be awfully slow (or even crash sometimes) when enabling the Composite 
> extension.
> So blame me for your bad gfx drivers :)
> 
> URL http://kompose.berlios.de/
> 
> Package:
> http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/kompose.spec
> http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/kompose-0.5.2-0.beta1.src.rpm
> 

Never got any takers, can someone please review?

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Orion Poplawski
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