1st August, 2008Jonas

Great, the one effect from Compiz I missed is on its way (and no, I don’t mean the cube…even if that’s fun for showing off…). No, I mean the magic lamp one. The best effect ever for visual feedback for minimizing if you ask me.

1st August, 2008Gonzalo

Kwin is beautiful and integrates into KDE so well. It takes a lot less resources on my hardware than compiz ever did. So, I am very happy camper.

The one thing, I would argue, is to keep the bling to a reasonable limit, because one of the hard things about compiz was its huge number of options that eventually made it overwhelming. For me, kwin in KDE 4.1 is very close to the right mix of elegance, ergonomics and beauty.

1st August, 2008Svempa

It is now possible to move maximized windows between Xinerama screens without having to restore them first.

Great news! I’ve missed that feature.

1st August, 2008Martin

It is nice to see your blog on the planet - now there will be more KWin postings ;-)

(Perhaps I should start blogging in English to get syndicated as well…)

1st August, 2008Matt Williams

 @Martin

You could always just have an “English” category on your blog and just get that one aggregated. I’m sure we’d all like to hear about the stuff you’re working on.

1st August, 2008jospoortvliet

Any chance the ‘shadow looks horrible with wobbly windows’ thing will be resolved anytime soon? I really like shadows, but I’ve also grown fond of the wobbly windows (on lowest setting) as it gives windows a much more natural feeling…

1st August, 2008Lucas Murray

“The one thing, I would argue, is to keep the bling to a reasonable limit, because one of the hard things about compiz was its huge number of options that eventually made it overwhelming. For me, kwin in KDE 4.1 is very close to the right mix of elegance, ergonomics and beauty.”

— Gonzalo

I personally will only be concentrating on usability effects, I don’t like to waste excess CPU cycles so there is no point in writing something that I will never use. This doesn’t mean though that if someone writes a good bling effect that it won’t be added. I can foresee an “overwhelming” amount of plugins and settings happening in the future but that just means we need to design an easier-to-use configuration window before it happens. ;-)

“Any chance the ‘shadow looks horrible with wobbly windows’ thing will be resolved anytime soon? I really like shadows, but I’ve also grown fond of the wobbly windows (on lowest setting) as it gives windows a much more natural feeling…”

— jospoortvliet

Several patches have already been proposed but unfortunately they had ill side effects. We’ll work something out.

1st August, 2008rudoolph

good work, only want effects that improve the use of the desktop and are really good integrated into the desktop, maybe something that you can call “native effects” for kde, effects devs for a better experience of kde4.x that replace something bored, like delete something and that can move into a magic lamp into the trash.

again, good work and sorry for my english :P

1st August, 2008rudoolph

me again, forget something that could be really usefull, intregrate gethotnewstuff2, so, when someone developed a nice snow effect for december, cold be easy installed.

2nd August, 2008Michael “ghns” Howell

me again, forget something that could be really usefull, intregrate gethotnewstuff2

That would be difficult to impossible, because KWin plug-ins are written in C++. Ghns is only for interpreted add-ons, since it can’t compile.