Hi Martin,

first thanks for your aswer.

The new Kickoff menu is a big improvement. I had a look at the latest 10.2 alpha(apart from a few minor glitches)

I know that Xgl is in SLED and SUSE Linux 10.1. (in fact I have a Suse 10.1 laptop right in front of me with XGL and KDE 3.54)

But to get it to work correctly I had to switch to gdm in the displaymanager configuration file.
(when I had it set to kdm(default for KDE) no X-Server would start at all ---> so no starting or logging in to KDE)
And yes I tried all the other known ways of enabling it.

The problem is it works great for KDE when you accept a lot of workarounds.(nothing for normal users(corporate users!)
In Gnome you would only need gset-compiz and even normal users could handle that.

I noticed kicker-compiz but haven't been able to try it yet.
Does somebody have experience with it? Is it usable for a standard user?
a
Quinn is something I regulary use but it has not solved the KDE-integration for me(yet).
Perhaps Beryl(fork) will change that.

I'm really interested in the official plans as how to handle Xgl/Compiz on KDE.

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Martin Schlander schrieb: 
Torsdag 21 september 2006 10:08 skrev Jordi Massaguer i Pla:
  
Will we be able to use the 3D effects (Xgl) with Kde?

We were considering to move from kde to gnome because we wanted to use the
new menu and 3D effects we saw on SLD10.0. However, if Kde will have a new
menu and Xgl supported, we may not.
    

KDE _will_ have the Kickoff menu on 10.2.. no "if"
http://en.opensuse.org/Kickoff

Lot's of people have used Xgl with KDE. Whether or not it's supported is a 
matter of definition.
http://suse.linuxin.dk/images/screenshots/xgla.jpg

Xgl is not only in SLED but also in SUSE Linux 10.1 btw.

A couple of projects that might interest you:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=46021
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15888

A rephrasing of the question might be, how close do SUSE devs follow these 
projects? And if they're usable by end of October will they be included? 
<flamebait>so we can maybe have eyecandy _and_ functionality at the same 
time, without major nuissances</flamebait>.

Martin
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