<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Cox</b> <<a href="mailto:alan@redhat.com">alan@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 03:24:05AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:<br>> Have we considered enabling Compiz by default in GNOME and fall back to<br>> metacity if the driver or hardware don't support acceleration? That
<br>> would get desktop effects out of the box on Intel and some ATI cards.<br><br>Compiz is too buggy to use - its still hopelessly broken with java menus</blockquote><div><br>thats java which is broken here not compiz.
<br>its not hoplessly broken there is a workaround for it<br>export AWT_TOOLKIT="MToolkit<br>but there are other bugs I explained above (opengl apps)<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
and you'd want to use one of the actually maintained compositing managers<br>instead.</blockquote><div><br>? don't understand this compiz _is_ activly maintained <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Even then<br><br>- Do you know anyone who doesn't turn the effects off eventually ?<br>- Do we care about the huge increase in power consumption ?</blockquote><div><br>yes here I agree with you.. even thought I don't know how 'huge' it really is.
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