Re: desktop effects tab in appearance capplet

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 23:38 +0100, Patrick Niklaus wrote:
> >
> >  Can you outline what these cases are? In Metacity, compositing can be
> >  enabled or disabled simply by switching a gconf key.
> >
> 
> Well the main reason is that e.g. compiz can not run without
> compositing enabled. It might be possible in the future when the
> corresponding core changes have been made. In most cases this is
> worked around with running metacity as a replacement for compiz
> non-composited mode. So an implementation of "enable desktop effects"
> which needs an already running instance is not a good option at the
> moment. What also could be possible is a gconf key that is set and
> additional there is a script, command or whatever run when specified.
> That would probably fit the needs for booth use cases: Enabling
> compositing on an already running instance and starting a new instance
> with compositing enabled.


I still don't understand. Is it not possible to disable all the fancy
effects in Compiz? Surely this is what the "enable desktop effects"
option should do.


Regards,

Thomas