Re: Notes on the Metacity compositor

[Toby Smithe <toby smithe gmail com>]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 18:19 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 17:54 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Owen was showing me FC6 this morning, and it does seem to work out 
> > nicely having metacity handle the old video hardware and compiz handle 
> > the new, with a simple toggle between them. The only real glitch in it 
> > was that compiz uses EWMH-viewports to implement workspaces, which I 
> > think is probably a bad choice; the exact same user-visible behavior 
> > could be done with the EWMH-workspace implementation
> 
> If compiz used workspaces instead of viewports, you wouldn't be able to
> have a window wrapped around an edge of the cube and thus partially
> visible on two different sides.
> 
> No, I'm not claiming that's a *good* reason. :-)

That's a great reason! ;-)