[opensuse-factory] Future of compiz
Hi everybody, 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). If nobody cares for it, I might as well drop it from Factory; X11:Comiz will obviously stay around for as long as I find enough time to make it build with current infra.. In case anybody wants to keep it: That also means somebody needs to TEST it during Factory periods. Just collecting thoughts here. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
* Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Am 19.08.11, 12:06 +0200 schrieb Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger:
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.
Compiz has a plugin called CompICC [1], which is currently the only one, which provides similiar per monitor colour correction functionality like present on osX desktops. That said, the plugin needs to be ported to the Compiz 0.9.x API, but it is worked on. kind regards Kai-Uwe Behrmann -- developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org [1] http://compicc.sf.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
I've never gotten Compiz-KDE to work. It never loaded any window frames for me -- at least on openSUSE. What could possibly made sense is to remove it from Factory and point any users wanting it to the Ayatana repository. Compiz is a requirement for Unity and putting them both into the same repo is not too far fetched. It would also allow Compiz to get upgrades that would violate the version freeze. On Freitag 19 August 2011 12:06:02 Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
Hi everybody,
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).
If nobody cares for it, I might as well drop it from Factory; X11:Comiz will obviously stay around for as long as I find enough time to make it build with current infra..
In case anybody wants to keep it: That also means somebody needs to TEST it during Factory periods.
Just collecting thoughts here.
Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Am 20.08.11, 19:04 +0200 schrieb Markus Slopianka:
I've never gotten Compiz-KDE to work. It never loaded any window frames for me -- at least on openSUSE.
Compiz comes with almost no plugin activated by default. It needs careful configuring in the package. That is not the case for openSUSE's repository. IMO compiz should deliver useful defaults by itself by running the configure script, but it does not. As a user workaround, one can manually activate the most plugins like: core;resize;decoration;minimize;move;rotate; This is eigther possible by running the ccsm GUI or editing $HOME/.config/compiz/compizconfig-1/Default.ini kind regards Kai-Uwe Behrmann -- developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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