[Foresight-devel] Re: compiz

[ermo | Rune Morling]

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 14:12 +0100, Martin Bähr wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:42:00PM +0000, António Meireles wrote:
> > a) It makes sense (IMHO) to provide some (optional but out of the box)
> > glitz by default on all desktops. (that's why i put compiz in
> > desktop-common)
> 
> it seems that not only xfce but also kde4 has support for desktop
> effects (see http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/desktop.php )
> 
> so even if compiz works with kde and xfce, i think the native effects
> for those environments should be the default, and switching to compiz an
> option.
> 
> greetings, martin.

I second Martin's point. Keeping the environment's default/native
compositing manager and offering compiz as an option seems the sensible
thing to do from a user perspective. Can't comment on the packaging side
of that, though.

- ermo