Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (806 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2011-08-19 12:06]:
> Factory is nearing up to the 12.1 look and feel and I, as one of the
> Compiz maintainers, was wondering if it is in any way useful to keep
> compiz around for this release.
>
> The most 'prominent' DE using it was gnome, but with the move to GNOME 3
> (actually 3.2 for the release), Compiz does not make sense (only one
> compositing manager can run at any time, so compiz and gnome-shell
> conflict). KDE4.x has most of the features of compiz anyway directly
> integrated (as far as I know).
>
> Is there anybody using compiz on other DEs? (lxde/xfce, even though that
> would be a bit contradicting their 'light' advertisement).

Please keep it in Factory, I know of people using it with Xfce
and in 12.1 it'll be all the more important to those who want an
alternative to the now defunct GNOME 2 desktop. While Xfce
provides a WM with an optional, built-in composite manager its
functionality is not comparable.
(And "lightweightness" should probably be understood relative to
KDE4/GNOME 3).
-- 
Guido Berhoerster
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