Re: Metacity Compositor

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 15:33 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> BJ�Lindqvist wrote:
> > On 10/4/06, Rob Adams <readams readams net> wrote:
> >> The effort required to add eye candy effects to metacity is much
> >> smaller, in my opinion, than the effort required to make compiz a good,
> >> usable window manager.  Most of the effects code is likely to be
> >> reusable in metacity and KWin; compiz makes for a good experimental
> > 
> > Are you sure? Compositing in Metacity has been in progress at least
> > since August 2004. It doesnt seem like a small effort.
> > 
> 
> I don't think "in progress" is very accurate, at least I have not seen a 
> lot of code going in, granted I haven't been paying huge amounts of 
> attention.
> 
> I don't understand why it would be a huge effort for 2D stuff like 
> minimize animations, drop shadows, etc. Think xrender rather than opengl.
> 
> But, I have not really been involved in the conversations about it and 
> can't say I have a deep understanding.
> 
> Havoc

Tried metacity compositor. affects look cleaner than compiz except for
one small thing : all windows look blue :(

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