Re: Metacity Compositor

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:54 -0400, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="JP Rosevear">
> 
> > I'm not sure how lisp like configuration equates with something that
> > exposes all its settings in gconf and has a dbus plugin for remote
> > control.  gnome-xgl is a settings gui that is fairly generic (except for
> > enabling Xgl on suse), although it could use a little UI love.
> 
> Compiz may not be programmable, but it contains almost as many settings as
> the rest of GNOME combined [1]. Do we really want to bring that kind of
> thing upon ourselves again? Plugins changing behaviour so fundamentally is
> pretty scary, too (in terms of supportability, combinatorial brainfuckage,
> etc). Certainly we have to move forward on integration of a compositing
> manager and useful (and pretty) effects, but Compiz in its current state
> seems like a backwards step in many ways. New and cool technologies don't
> have to mean we forget what we've learned over the last six years.

You don't have to expose everything in the main user facing UI, we do
this all the time in GNOME. 

Support of cracktastic plugins not included in the basic compiz could be
an issue, but I'm not sure its worth sacrificing the flexibility of the
plugin system for, especially if there is a good way to detect
non-standard plugins when the bug is reported.

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