Re: Compiz and complexity

[Frederik Nnaji <frederik nnaji gmail com>]

Hi there again,

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 18:08, Florian Müllner <florian muellner gmail com> wrote:

Metacity is the default window manager of the GNOME project. It
also decorates windows(*), but this functionality is inseparable from
the window management.

Aha?

 

Note that gtk-window-decorator
is developed by the compiz (fusion?) project and has no ties to GNOME in
general or the metacity project in particular.

I'm actually so surprised to hear this, i'll read up on it immediately!

Thanks for being very helpful, this is indeed a great mess, especially in Ubuntu, just take a look at all the noise in the GConf registry with Compiz and Metacity side by side.

 

(*)  just like probably every window manager on earth except compiz
(**) bluntly put: gtk-window-decorator is a program which can read
    another program's file format, just like open office understands
    Word documents