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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by josh on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @14:20

You could just as easily say why did the beryl developers create aquamarine when they could have added the same features to KWin. I do believe KWin was first. See how that works? :)

Since everyone is accomplishing the same thing, the functionality will eventually be delegated to a shared library that everyone uses, i.e. KWin, Aquamarine, compiz etc will all link against the same lib3DDesktop.so or whatever. I'm not saying it will happen but it could and probably will sometime in the future just for practical reasons.

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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by superstoned on Thursday 31/May/2007, @07:15

It would happen if it was possible. But, as Troy mentioned, this was discussed - using beryl and compiz stuff. Sadly, Beryl and Compiz don't really have a proper plugin system, they just expose all of their internals to the so-called plugins. It's bad security-wise, compatibility-wise etc - and makes it impossible to share plugins.

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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by kado on Friday 01/Jun/2007, @08:41

I believe you superstoned but maybe there can be made one exception. "Compiz: Screenlets!" are really great, it would be good if Kwin-composite could use screenlets from compiz :D

Then, if it's true that KDE4 could use dashbords from Mac, with additional compiz-screenlets KDE4 would rock!

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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by Troy Unrau on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @08:26

KDE can't use mac's dashboard applets. This is a rumour, and we don't know where it started...

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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by Anon on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @08:50

"This is a rumour, and we don't know where it started..."

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1715

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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by Kami on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @08:52

It started from Zack Rusin:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060102-5881.html
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1715

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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by Troy Unrau on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @08:07

Interesting that his quote is such that he 'intends' to develop a compatibility layer, not that one exists. *sigh*

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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by Kami. on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @09:23

That's the way of rumors. On the other side is kde4 a large series of promises, much broken, more realized. So, until it's finished or another message regarding this appears, the people believe in the promise. No one knows what is coming, until it's finished.

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