Module proposal: Mutter
- From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Module proposal: Mutter
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:17:23 -0400
Purpose:
Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages
your desktop via OpenGL. Mutter combines a sophisticated display engine
using the Clutter toolkit with solid window-management logic inherited
from the Metacity window manager.
While Mutter can be used stand-alone, it is primarily intended to be
used as the display core of a larger system such as gnome-shell or
Moblin. For this reason, Mutter is very extensible via plugins, which
are used both to add fancy visual effects and to rework the window
management behaviors to meet the needs of the environment.
Target: Desktop Release Set
Dependencies:
No dependencies beyond current GNOME modules and external dependencies.
Note that Mutter currently depends on Metacity being installed for
GConf schemas and other data files.
Resource usage:
tarballs: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mutter
source control: git://git.gnome.org/mutter
bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org, mutter product
Adoption:
Mutter packages exist for most major Linux distributions as part of
packaging GNOME Shell. Mutter is also key component of the Moblin 2.0
and 2.1 releases.
GNOME-ness / community:
Since Mutter is derived from the Metacity code base, it should interact
ideally with existing GNOME components and takes advantage of many years
of bug fixing and development.
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