2012/2/10 Bryen M Yunashko <suserocks@bryen.com>:
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 13:18 -0300, Claudio Freire wrote:
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@gmail.com> wrote:
Compiz is not usable with GNOME3. To be honest the development of Compiz is pretty much focused on Unity, not even simple bug fixes are done unless they are related to Unity.
Compiz would work for GNOME2 though. For people still using it.
So by that definition, Compiz should be maintained until May of 2013 since 11.4 is the last currently-supported version to include GNOME2. Right?
True, but the compiz branch on 11.4 is 0.9.x, the one which includes glib-mainloop (used in Unity), while for what I've understood, Kai pretends to maintain the 0.8.x branch (which is nice). So in a way, we're talking about two very different things.
Unless in the interim, the Compiz folks revise direction and give GNOME3 support.
I doubt this is going to happen. Compiz development is probably being payed by Canonical (Sam Spillaz), and so far bugs not related to Unity aren't really being worked on, at least weren't in the 0.9.x tree (I might be wrong though, for a long time I'm not following compiz).
So, while we'd provide it for support purposes, we shouldn't promote it as a feature to expect with openSUSE in general.
I don't care about what people promote... if people think it's good to promote compiz, go for it... but without GNOME2 it's somehow redundant, and KDE Kwin offers most likely a better composite solution, and is activelly developed.
At least this is my reading of this. :-)
Bryen
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