Re: desktop effects tab in appearance capplet

["Patrick Niklaus" <marex opencompositing org>]

>
>  I'm sorry, but I don't believe 90% of "average joe" users are interested
>  in cool effects, unless you have some formal statistics to back this
>  claim.
>

Sorry, I think you misunderstood me there. What I meant is that, *if*
Joe The Average User wants to have 'cool effects' he most likely
doesn't want Metacity composition. What Joe sees is one of the rather
eye-grabbing effects (cube, animation, expo, whatever...) and he wants
to have them as well. So Joe looks into his appearance settings dialog
and finds something called "Desktop Effects", sounds promising, right?
So he enables it and what he gets is Metacity composition. That's not
really what Joe wanted, is it?

>
>  Not really. Compiz is not on the list of modules for GNOME, so we can't
>  start adding support or dependencies for it. Otherwise we will have to
>  support ever other window manager that anyone requests.
>
>  If you want to suggest that GNOME formally depends on Compiz, or depends
>  on both Compiz and Metacity, please feel free to bring it up on
>  desktop-devel-list.
>

So what you are telling me here is that Gnome policy does not allow to
add settings that enable/disable/start non-Gnome modules? I don't
really see how Gnome depends on Compiz when you need to define a
compile time flag to enable it - that is an option not a dependency.

Regards,
Patrick