Re: Compiz and complexity

[Frederik Nnaji <frederik nnaji gmail com>]

Hi Johannes

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 15:51, Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:

Hi!

Am Sonntag, den 30.05.2010, 15:43 +0200 schrieb Frederik Nnaji:

> well, true, every other distro based on GNOME has Metacity+Compiz
> +GNOME Panel etc..

well, either compiz or metacity as both are not possible ;) I think that
was what Florian meant.

okok, let's put it differently, so my blurry words can come clear:

Ubuntu ships both, metacity and compiz.

Honestly, thank you for shaking me out of sleep here, i never took the time to actually untangle this in my head, now i was forced to, and it helped me understand a lot of problems.

 

>
> my point was, Ubuntu is upgrading GNOME with libindicator and
> notify-osd, while GNOME itself is moving to an entirely new paradigm.
> Or is the manpower involved with Shell not needet for the further
> development of legacy GNOME?

Well, there is not really a plan for further development of legacy GNOME
other than bug-fixing and getting rid of bonobo (which has been done
already). And well, legacy GNOME involves only gnome-panel and metacity.
And metacity is super stable and slowly moving but still will be a
perfect window-manager for a long time.

ok. Makes sense on the stability side, but i think reducing legacy GNOME to gnome-panel and metacity alone is a little short on some ends..