Re: desktop effects tab in appearance capplet

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>]

On 11.04.2008 16:58, Patrick Niklaus wrote:
> In my opinion 2) is the best choice for 90% of the users how want to
> have desktop effects. Joe The Average User doesn't know nor care what
> window manager is running. He just wants 'the cool effects the guy
> next door showed him yesterday'. That is all.
> Of course there might be reasons for a user to prefer 1), but as I
> already said, Joe The Average User doesn't care what window manager is
> running and whether it is part of the gnome project.
> Just refusing to add support for Compiz to Gnome is plain politics and
> doesn't help anyone.

Just because some stop-gap measure works better in the short term
doesn't mean it's what you should do.

> >  I think the only way to resolve this is to implement both solutions and
> >  add a configure switch called "--enable-compiz-switcher" which would
> >  enable the second option.
>
> I'm ok with that. It would maybe make the code a little bit messy but
> that should not really be an big issue. It is still cleaner than
> forcing distributions to maintain patches for that.

To me that seems like a waste of our resources. I got the impression
that distros are going to patch it up, anyway (Ubuntu this, Fedora
that), and just patching in the entire tab seems to be both cleaner
and easier to maintain patch-wise. I'd rather do nothing at all than
try to support both.

Jens