[Compcomm] Kde composite manager...

[Mike Dransfield]

Cédric wrote:
> http://dot.kde.org/1180541665/
>
> Here new demo of kwin composite manager...
>
> I note that desktop grid implementation seems better than compiz wall
> plugin. When you switch a screen, window come on current screen
> instead of translate all the desktop... (maybe it's now true in wall
> plugin, i don't test it recently).
>
> The "exposé" like plugin with filtering via keyboard is really cool !

Yes, it highlights the kde integration, I tried recently to
make a plugin which allows compiz to know about the
documents which are opened by an application.

Safe to say its either very hard or next to impossible without
dbus.  KDE apps all have a dcop/dbus interface to query which
documents are open.  I am not sure if 'g' apps do this.

They must be using this here, and I doubt that it would work
on non-kde apps.

This sort of functionality would be really really cool to have
but until every app on the planet uses dbus for file notification
/querying then we will not see it for everyone.  A fallback could
use inotify, but that would need modification to inotify first.

It would be nice if the kde interface could be standardized
via freedesktop.

Once we have this interface it would be possible to extend the
information to include more than files (ie. file metadata, IM
chats etc).

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