On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Jigish Gohil <cyberorg@opensuse.org> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Sam Spilsbury
I'm aware that openSUSE is using a branch of Compiz titled 'NOMAD' which is supposed to enhance remote-desktop usage when using compositors. This is a pretty cool project. The compiz developers spoke with David back in January about the future of compiz and merging together all the branches (Compiz 0.9, NOMAD etc).
Pieces of Nomad such as xrdp, xorg-x11-server-dmx etc are dropped from 11.2 and David seems to have gone missing(again), so it does not make any sense keeping nomad branch packages in openSUSE.
For 11.3 KDE4's compositing effects are now much more polished and hopefully gnome's own compositing bits would be in place making compiz redundant.
I won't enter into the gnome compositing subject. Distros are free to do what they want but I would advise that openSUSE look at what other Distros are doing with Mutter for compositing. I've been testing it extensively and while it does show promise, I'm not sure if it will be ready for 10.3
While talking about development, we haven't seen compiz release in almost a year, not even a maintenance release, including new compiz will depend on how good the new release is, we wouldn't want users subjected to alpha quality compiz all over again if the current packages are doing the job well :)
There is a 0.8.2 [1] release already out and a 0.8.4 release in the works 0.9 is the very unstable version and a 0.9.0 is almost complete in terms of the larger scale timeline. Let me know if you can get in contact with David. Kind Regards, Sam [1] http://lists.compiz-fusion.org/pipermail/community/2009-March/000185.html
Cheers
-J
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