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21st January 2005
by Derek Kite
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Thomas Lübking committed kcompmgr with the comment 'Added kompmgr, composite engine for kwin, bases upon xcompmgr'. The Composite extension to the X protocol adds transparency and other eye-candy.

This commit raised some questions:
On Saturday 15 January 2005 18:56, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> Some questions. Why don't you use fredrik's kcompmgr code?

afaik the kcompmgr code is intended to be (internal) part of kwin, while the current kompmgr is a fork of the original xcompmgr that resides as standalone process and is (only if activatedwished) just handled by kwin. also lubos mentioned that fredrik's code won't be done for 3.4 and so we're (temporary) going this direction until there's a internal compmgr for kwin.

as you mentioned: XComposite is far from being bugfree/perfectly supported (e.g. no gtk 1.x app works really good with XCompositeRedirect()). so this is just a (very optional) option to play around if you wish eyecandy (there're warning dialogs everywhere telling you that this is not considered to be code for productive environments)

the whole thing is discussed with lubos and fredrik (see the kwin delevoper list) and does not really touch kwin itself too much (process startup and dynamic setting of some X properties, i assime parts of the config code can/will be reused later)

in matters of what does _not_ work with the Composite extension: i'd suggest to open a list to entry critical candidates, use of XComposite/compmgrs in general (e.g. ati users should currently keep away from that)

Zack Rusin wasn't quite sure about this:
So instead of using Fredrik's awesome kcompmgr you essentially forked Keith's xcompmgr and will be integrating it in KWin? That sucks...

Thomas Lübking responded:
Please read the discussion on the kwin developer list. kompmgr is a standalone process, only handled by kwin for kde3.4
fredriks code is not gonna be ready before kde4.0 (3.5? :) therefore we take this as (quite temporary) solution


Statistics
Commits: 3380 by 218 developers, 275894 lines modified, 4708 new files.
Open Bugs: 7829
Open Wishes: 7223
Bugs Opened: 324 in the last 7 days.
Bugs Closed: 381 in the last 7 days.

Commit Summary
Module Commits
kde-i18n
1490
kdeextragear-2
192
kdepim
174
kdeextragear-1
172
kdebase
146
kdelibs
130
kdenonbeta
122
kdenetwork
104
koffice
100
www
82
Lines Developer Commits
3783
Thierry Vignaud
284
9252
Pedro Morais
161
916
Stephan Binner
143
2264
David Faure
110
9482
Stefan Asserhäll
91
3159
Kevin Patrick Scannell
90
6445
Gregory Mokhin
89
2475
Max Howell
72
14717
Matthieu Robin
64
4101
Andrew Coles
64

Internationalisation (i18n) Status
Language Percentage Complete
Portuguese
100.00%
Swedish
99.85%
British English
99.21%
French
97.52%
Danish
97.37%
Dutch
94.20%
Estonian
93.35%
Italian
89.49%
Tamil
87.90%
Brazilian Portuguese
87.08%

Bug Killers
Bug Killer Number Of Bugs Closed
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
30
Jason Keirstead
26
Martin Koller
24
Thiago Macieira
18
Stephan Kulow
17
Nikolas Zimmermann
13
Mark Kretschmann
12
Olivier Goffart
11
Stephan Binner
11
George Staikos
10

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