On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> thinking about what i was needing to reimplement the KRunner shell, I've
> came
> across a problem that looks too much the problem of the OSD.
> We too often need something that is almost identical to Dialog
> but-not-really
> (because the background is slightly different, because needs some
> particular
> window flags etc) and is really too tricky to get right (yeah, it "dances"
> again)
>
> So, i came to the conclusion to have its api cleaned up a bit and put it
> into
> libplasmaquick, so will be possible to have c++ subclasses of it.
> So if someone needs a top level window that kinda looks like a frame, there
> will be that possibility available (OSD should totally use that for
> instance)
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
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Why do we need KRunner (or the milou shell) and the OSD written in C++?

Aleix
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