Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (491 mails)

[Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@xxxxxxxxx>]

2012/2/10 Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b@xxxxxx>:
> Am 10.02.12, 18:40 -0000 schrieb Nelson Marques:
>
> > up for maintaining a piece of software... but wouldn't it be more
> > useful if you implemented your software directly on GNOME or KDE
>
>
> That path is still open. But dropping the only available solution before
> something else is in place is not nice IMHO. Linux is already years behind
> osX in regard to that very topic.

There's one big difference, OSX is DRM/DRI friendly, free software isn't.

> > I know compiz is probably be around for a few years more (ex: on
> > commercial Linux), for example my home laptop has a RHEL 6.2 with
> > GNOME2 and Compiz, but it's really being abandoned in determent of
> > newer DE's.
>
>
> Btw. I do not think that Compiz package maintainance is such a burden. Most
> work on compiz-0.8.8 was already present in obs provided by others.

I did maintained it for a bit in G:Ayatana (0.9.2), and it isn't
really pie... Dimstar most likely shares the same thought... Compiz in
0.9.x branch is very volatile... dunno about 0.8.x.

NM

> > Either way, I happy someone jumped in to keep compiz alive.
>
>
> Glad you like it.
>
> kind regards
> Kai-Uwe
>
> > 2012/2/10 Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b@xxxxxx>:
> >
> > > > Quoting Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b@xxxxxx>:
> > > > > Integration of ICC support into KWin and GNOME shell is of course
> > > > > prefered.
>
>
> > > CompICC is currently the _only_ code for whole screen ICC colour
> > > correction
> > > on Linux.



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