Future of Xfwm

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Stephane,

> Do you plan to start xfwm 4 from scratch? Is there any
> fundamental flaw in xfwm 3 that that you never told us about? :-)

Nothing really bad for the user, but maintenance on xfce code is a
nughtmare due to its looooong history (xfwm is a fork of a pre-fvwm2,
which was based on fvwm1, which was based on twm, etc. etc.)

Even if the code is quite different now, there a tons of stuff that I
would like to do differently.
 
> I could not test oroborus yet, but I guess that the main reason
> for its very small size is lack of functionalities compared to xfwm...
> In what sense is oroborus "better" than xfwm?

The way it handles themes and shaped windows.

> Interestingly:
> 
> oroborus is 4600 lines of code; xfwm 26000.
> Once compiled, I find that xfwm is ~2.5 times _smaller_
> than oroborus (same compiler, platform, aso)
> 
> Funny, no?

Both being stripped ? oroborus is about 40k stripped, xfwm is about
200K.
 
But you are true, oroborus lack a lot of stuff that xfwm do. However,
it's a base, a style, a source of inspiration, rather than a copy/paste.

Cheers,
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Olivier               <fourdan at xfce.org>            http://www.xfce.org
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