[compiz] window decorations explained and how to move forward

[Mirco Müller]

Am Montag, den 03.04.2006, 13:29 +0200 schrieb David Reveman:

> > Sure, it's pretty, I was thinking of "better" in terms of new ideas. Do 
> > people have any mockups of decorations that'd be hard to implement 
> > without an SVG theme engine?
> 
> We really want per-pixel alpha so that edges can be anti-aliased and
> parts can be translucent.

	Speaking of SVG. What about slowly (or maybe faster :) moving from the
dependency on libsvg/libsvg-cairo to librsvg? Ok, I know that e.g.
OpenSuSE/SLES isn't coming with Gnome 2.14 yet and thus no librsvg
2.14.x, which offers nice SVG-rendering via cairo... but still I wanted
this to be mentioned to everybody interested/involved in working on
compiz.

	Afaik, libsvg and libsvg-cairo were initially done by Carl Worth during
early development phase of the cairo API and now he wishes those libs to
"die" :)

	Anybody with more insight into this issue to clarify the viability of
migrating compiz from libsvg/libsvg-cairo to librsvg 2.14.x?

	At least for the g-w-d part I think we should consider this. The
kde/qt-part is different I think, because - at least qt 4.x - has native
SVG support in itself. Doing this would be a small step in leanifying
the library-dependencies for compiz (on the gnome/gtk side).

Best regards...

MacSlow

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