KDE window manager future?
After I wrote a bit about AIGLX and new NVIDIAS drivers I realized that it is not entirely clear what will happen with KDE in this case: at the moment there are technically two window managers available which are also compositing window managers taking advantage of the new features around these days: Metacity and Compiz.
KDE has its own window manager which is capable of some effects at least through the xcomposite extension provided by X for now quite some time. However,
But there are some news in this field at least: in this weeks commit digest there were some changes listed which make KDE able to use compiz as a window manager officially - without any of the dirty hacks which are around atm.
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