The Cube in FC10/KDE-4.2

[Kevin Kofler]

Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> Btw, why are KDE people competing with Compiz(-fusion) wrt desktop
> effects?

Because Compiz is competing with KWin wrt. window management and not doing
an all that good job at it.

> It seems very unlikely (ie. hard) to provide equivalent functionality.

It's even harder to provide equivalent functionality to what KWin does.

> Why not concentrate to make Compiz better integrated in KDE itself and use
> its own effects instead? Of course, it works very well even now, but I see
> no point on recreating the same effects in KDE --- if one wants them, one
> probably likes eye-candy, and will probably prefer Compiz effects over KDE
> effects anyway. 

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes#Why_not_Compiz.3F

        Kevin Kofler