On Tuesday 14-04-2009 15:07:49 Lucas Murray wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Emdek <emd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> By the way, are there plans for adding possibility to query >> KWindowSystem to check if given effect is available (for example check >> if we are using KWin, have Compositing and effect is enabled in >> settings etc., just check if we have all needed things to use it)? >> Then checking if task bar previews are available (or mentioned effect >> for showing windows) could be much cleaner I think (I've read about >> plans to add preview of desktops to pager, so there it could be also >> used). > > The "non-hackish" way [*] to test for support is to make KWin provide a > D-Bus function that returns a list of all active desktop effects, then > all you need to do is check if "taskbarthumbnails" or "highlightwindow" > is listed. This of course cannot be done in KDE's service name domain > [**] if you wanted to keep the possibility of compositor-independence > [***] like what the current "hack" provides. This list could then be > available in KWindowSystem I guess (Assuming if all compositors name > effects the same [****]).
Ok, so it looks like that current solution is the best for now. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
