This week we have mostly seen work on 4.10 and not so much on 4.9.1. Two further bugs in Window Switching got fixed and a few more bug fixes are in the pipeline (I have a small review backlog).

But the work on 4.10 is rather impressive and really important. First of all I want to thank Jammy Zhou for adapting our OpenGL test application to determine whether the Catalyst driver supports direct rendering with compositing. Thanks to that change KWin will default to direct rendering and OpenGL 2 on the latest Catalyst drivers (in fact KWin defaults to direct rendering on all drivers now). If you are already using a recent Catalyst version you can also set the environment variable “KWIN_DIRECT_GL” to “1” to enforce direct rendering, no matter what the test app thinks. This works with all currently supported KWin versions.

My work concentrated on finishing the Plastik port to QML which I just merged into master. The classic decoration is still around, I want to make sure that the QML port is working correctly first. Please give it a try with e.g. Project Neon.

Furthermore I did quite some refactoring. Last week I mentioned the addition of Screens to the “User actions Menu” and that actually triggered some working on that code as I realized that this needs to be split out. This refactoring got just merged, too. And last but not least, I finally finished some unmerged work from last year GSoC. We again and again broke the patch set which made it difficult to merge. The user actions menu which I merged first, caused serveral merge conflicts again, so that was not a trivial thing. I intend to do a dedicated blog post to explain the refactoring especially as I have some more work already prepared. The numbers of these three merged branches today are quite impressive:

21 files changed, 650 insertions(+), 353 deletions(-)
7 files changed, 812 insertions(+), 555 deletions(-)
36 files changed, 2509 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)


Summary

Crash Fixes

Bug Fixes

• 305449: Empty TabBox in case of no active Client
  This change will be available in version 4.9.1
  Git Commit
• 304950: alt+tab works wrong with “one window per application”
  This change will be available in version 4.9.1
  Git Commit

New Features

• 301327: Option to disable close on double click in Aurorae
  This change will be available in version 4.10
  Git Commit
• 301103: Allow direct rendering with fglrx
  This change will be available in version 4.10
  Git Commit
• 303810: Generic QML support for Aurorae Themes
  This change will be available in version 4.10
  Git Commit

Tasks

• 299277: Move Workspace’s compositing functionality to own class Compositor
  This change will be available in version 4.10
  Git Commit
• 305832: Split out Useractions Menu from Workspace
  This change will be available in version 4.10
  Git Commit