[Foresight-devel] Re: compiz

Ken VanDine ken at vandine.org
Fri Jan 11 12:29:53 EST 2008


Well, the gnome-control-center makes sense and I think that has a dep
on gnome-panel.  It would use the gnome-cc to get various setup stuff...
like keybindings... etc  remember compiz has roots in metacity, and
nobody has made an effort to make it useful outside of gnome.

--Ken

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 19:26 +0200, Alexandru Bucur wrote:
> Yea but it's still strange that it as gnome dependencies like
> gnome-panel and gnome-control-center.
> 
> On Jan 11, 2008 7:23 PM, Ken VanDine <ken at vandine.org> wrote:
> > definately not... compiz should be in group-gnome.  If you want it use
> > it... but it doesn't make sense outside of gnome.  Even gnome has decent
> > composting in metacity, which i perfer for daily use over compiz.  But
> > that has far less bling.
> >
> > --Ken
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 18:03 +0100, Mark Trompell wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > do we need to have compiz for all Editions?
> > > Just asking because it pulls in gnome-panel and gnome-control-center.
> > > There is no need to have this in Xfce-edition. Xfwm can do compositing
> > > anyway, even not as fancy as compiz does. But as Xfce itself calls
> > > itself lightweight, I wouldn't care if compiz is something that people
> > > can install later if they want to. And stay with Xfwm4 compositing for
> > > all the people that don't want/need compiz.
> > > Maybe just putting compiz and friends into group-compiz and whoever
> > > wants it  can add it to group-SomeDE.
> > > Mark
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