On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Sam Spilsbury

I'm aware that openSUSE is using a branch of Compiz titled 'NOMAD' which is supposed to enhance remote-desktop usage when using compositors. This is a pretty cool project. The compiz developers spoke with David back in January about the future of compiz and merging together all the branches (Compiz 0.9, NOMAD etc).

Pieces of Nomad such as xrdp, xorg-x11-server-dmx etc are dropped from 11.2 and David seems to have gone missing(again), so it does not make any sense keeping nomad branch packages in openSUSE. For 11.3 KDE4's compositing effects are now much more polished and hopefully gnome's own compositing bits would be in place making compiz redundant. While talking about development, we haven't seen compiz release in almost a year, not even a maintenance release, including new compiz will depend on how good the new release is, we wouldn't want users subjected to alpha quality compiz all over again if the current packages are doing the job well :) Cheers -J -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org

David is not following this mailing list. I got in touch with him directly and, as agreed with David, I'm posting his reply below for reference.

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On 10/4/2009 at 7:54, Sam Spilsbury wrote: Hey everyone,

Not sure if there is a different ML I should be posting this too. I usually see David Reveman hanging out on #opensuse-gnome so I guessed this is the right place to put this.

I'm aware that openSUSE is using a branch of Compiz titled 'NOMAD' which is supposed to enhance remote-desktop usage when using compositors. This is a pretty cool project. The compiz developers spoke with David back in January about the future of compiz and merging together all the branches (Compiz 0.9, NOMAD etc).

It's been a few months since then and NOMAD has seen almost _no_ development on freedesktop.org since the 30th of January or our own project infrastructure. It also seems that for the 11.2 release of openSUSE they will be planning on using the NOMAD-0.7.8 branch of compiz instead of the 0.8.* stable series with some important bugfixes.

Does David, Novell or openSUSE have any intention to try to merge NOMAD upstream? It would be useful functionality to have upstream and we don't bite ;-). A few changes would be required to make it work but overall it should work with the new infrastructure we have in place with the 0.9 development series. In fact, it should be fairly easy to merge it into the 0.8.* series.

If not, we don't really have much of a choice than to consider this a fork

<quote who="David Reveman"> I never got the time to merge the nomad work upstream as planned. opensuse is best to use the upstream version of compiz and abandon the nomad work for the time being. I might be able to find some time to at least merge some of the X server parts upstream soon but the compiz parts are unlikely to get my attention anytime soon. I'll start a wiki page at freedesktop.org asap with details for how all the nomad work is best merged upstream. - david </quote> Cheers, Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org