Re: Notes on the Metacity compositor

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Dan Winship wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 17:54 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Owen was showing me FC6 this morning, and it does seem to work out 
> > nicely having metacity handle the old video hardware and compiz handle 
> > the new, with a simple toggle between them. The only real glitch in it 
> > was that compiz uses EWMH-viewports to implement workspaces, which I 
> > think is probably a bad choice; the exact same user-visible behavior 
> > could be done with the EWMH-workspace implementation
>
> If compiz used workspaces instead of viewports, you wouldn't be able to
> have a window wrapped around an edge of the cube and thus partially
> visible on two different sides.

Just not true, afaik - that's what I mean by "the exact same 
user-visible behavior could be done with the EWMH-workspace implementation."

I'm sure it's annoying to change at this point, of course, but it's also 
kind of annoying to go fix up apps and libwnck and gtk and so forth to 
deal with either implementation approach. The good news is that not many 
apps care, probably.

Havoc