Re: Metacity Compositor

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 14:34 -0700, Rob Adams wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 17:25 -0400, Kristian H�rg wrote:
> > It would be nice if you could back up these claims with examples of
> > such missing details.  Or even better, file bugs so we can get them
> > fixed.  There is a component for compiz in the freedesktop.org
> > bugzilla:
> > 
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg&component=App/compiz
> 
> Why bother when both the GNOME and KDE projects already have excellent
> window managers?  I don't understand this idea of writing a whole new
> window manager just to add eye candy.  There's nothing about compositing
> that requires a complete rewrite of the window manager.  The effort
> would be far better spend simply extending the existing support for
> compositors in metacity and KWin.  Realistically, compiz is unlikely
> ever to be accepted by either project, because it's a chimera.  So why
> are we dumping so much effort into it?

In fact David R. tried the compositing in metacity approach and ran into
technical difficulties (and in fact I believe that Kristian and Soeren
eventually bumped into the same limitations).

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.