Metacity (used by GNOME 2 and GNOME flashback), Mutter (GNOME 3) and Xfwm (used by XFCE)
are supported but no KWin…
Why not? It’s a very important window manager and used a lot on Linux.
In what way is it not supported?
Ok, I see you mean officially supported. KiCad just works for me under KDE.
Supported means that someone on the KiCad team uses it and volunteers to fix bugs that are specific to it.
At present, KiCad team policy is that we do not officially support any Linux configurations other than the ones the core development team uses and volunteers to fix bugs on. KiCad probably works fine on other platforms (including KWin), but if there is some KWin-specific bug that does not appear on Mutter for example, we’re not necessarily going to try to fix it (but we welcome fixes from the community, and sometimes a developer decides to try to fix it anyway).
So, it is not supported because nobody on the team (at the moment) uses it and wants to support it.
This could change if someone joins the team who wants to support it.
The list of officially-supported platforms is intended to be a guide for people who are looking for an answer to “what is the platform I can run KiCad on that is likely to be the best experience / least amount of work”. Of course KiCad will work fine on many platforms not on that list, but may have minor issues. The fact that those platforms are not supported mostly just means that we are not making any kind of guarantee that we will work on fixing those kinds of issues.
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Thank you Jon for your swift reply and explanation.
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