On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Ben Kevan
I was wondering why Compiz for 11.1 is being shipped with the NOMAD patch applied, even though it hasn't been applied upstream and is known to break some features (most noted is Emerald).
Which other features? Emerald is not a critical piece of software, there are three more decorators available, emerald not working does not reduce any features provided by Compiz, including pretty decorators- use better theme. Emerald does not have any upstream maintainer, it started out as a fork of gnome-window-decorator and has been an ugly beast to keep up-to-date, there have been talks of its rewrite many times in past with nothing happening in that regards.
Can Compiz ship _WITHOUT_ the nomad patch on this release, until the a developer fixes emerald, or until nomad is sent upstream?
Nomad is upstream in it's own branch, http://gitweb.compiz-fusion.org/?p=compiz;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/nomad-0.7....
The reason I say is it will negatively effect openSUSE if Emerald doesn't work in 11.1 but does in other distro's (ie Ubuntu 8.10).
Why will it be negative? We have something additional "NOMAD" that other distros do not have, you also have choice to run compiz packages without nomad patches and working emerald from X11:XGL repo.
People won't care about "what a nomad is" .. but it works here.. but not here.
I suspect 99% of users do not know they can use different decorator and do not care if emerald does not exist. Same look/feel can be achieved by using gtk/kde3/kde4-window-decorator by using better theme anyway.
/end pointless rant
Indeed :) Let's not treat emerald not working as the end of civilization ;) -J -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org