Re: desktop effects tab in appearance capplet

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 11:00 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 00:05 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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.
> 
> Compiz doesn't work as well as Metacity as a window manager (for one),
> and requires some features that might not be available on some systems
> (accelerated non-sucky OpenGL). That's what the "desktop effects" is
> used for in all the distros, not to enable/disable fancy animations in
> Compiz or Metacity.
> 
> If Compiz worked as nicely as Metacity for window management and on all
> the systems that support 2D, then it'd probably be enabled by default,
> and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
> 
> You got a bit too hung up on the literal meaning of "Desktop Effects", I
> think.

Well, the point of my argument is that a "Desktop Effects" option in
GNOME cannot be used to change users window manager. GNOME itself does
not decree a particular window manager, so it cannot start changing the
running window manager based on, from the users point of view, an
completely unrelated option.

Personally, I want to see the "Desktop Effects" option just enable and
disable the compositor in Metacity. It's a shame Compiz doesn't have
such an option, or is considered too poor to run without compositing
enabled.

If Compiz users want to use Metacity when disabling desktop effects,
perhaps it would be possible to add this as an option to the Compiz
configuration somehow?

Regards,

Thomas