I already blogged about it: KWin Scripting needs help from the community if it should be available in 4.8. Unfortunately nothing changed about the state, except that I added a build flag to not compile Scripting.
I just wanted to apply a patch and got a compile error because of scripting and I remember that my GSoC student had also problems with scripting during his project.
So this is the second strike for scripting. And you know what will happen when I have to proceed to the third strike 🙁 Step up now, or scripting will have to go.
Could you explain what is broken? I mean, why can’t it compile? It is hard to imagine what has to be done without information about what is currently broken (beside missing features like activity support etc.).
It needs someone who is willing to maintain that piece of code.
And without information what probably will get broken.
As a matter of fact I downloaded KWin’s sources a few days ago for the sole purpose of knowing how scripting works, what it can do etc. I would love to see KWin’s scripting stick around and maybe even gain features. So:
I would be willing to take the time and keep scripting working as is at the moment. I would also love to get involved deeper and improve it, extend its features etc. This would need a little more time-investing from my side and will not happen before christmas (bachelor thesis on its way 😉 ). I think an important step will be enabling sharing of scripts via KNewStuff to make it more prominent. Just as an example.
So if a little (as much as neede, as little as possible of course) guidance could be provided to me, I ‘d love to help out! Just contact me!
Cheers,
Thomas
good luck with your thesis 🙂 and yes knewstuff would be a good integration and would help us to see whether it is used at all or help to get it started.
Thanks 🙂
Ok then, I’ll set up a kde-devel environment on my machine and try to keep up. Where should I turn to if I hit any major issues (regarding Kwin, not the dev envirnoment)? Any preferred mailinglist or sth like that? It would be nice if I could get in touch with you. I have you in my g+ circles so we could communicate there if you want.
just send mails to kwin at kde dot org