Enabling Compiz by default?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Fri Aug 10 11:48:01 UTC 2007


On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:42:15 +0530
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:24:05 +0530
> > Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Have we considered enabling Compiz by default in GNOME and fall
> >> back to metacity if the driver or hardware don't support
> >> acceleration? That would get desktop effects out of the box on
> >> Intel and some ATI cards.
> > 
> > Can you do basic window manager things like make a window always
> > present on all desktops yet?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> If you want to check if there are bugs still present of features
> missing please just enable it and check. If you find bugs, file bug
> reports. One of the quick ways to get these sort of bugs fixed if you
> agree that the end goal is something desirable is to enable it by
> default.

Nah.  I don't want glitz.  So I'll just disable it if it gets enabled.
The wobbly windows were cool for about 30 seconds.

> This is rawhide. We can do this.

Of course.  We can do anything.  The more important question is should
we.  I think no, but I don't really care that much either.

josh




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