Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 20th Mar 2007 01:51 UTC
The Beryl project has won a lot of press time so far with its impressive tricks -- even more than its slower-evolving daddy, Compiz. There are several lose ends to Beryl's core engine and incompatibilities with existing applications or technologies. However, something that really put off a lot of people when they try Beryl is its dreadful settings manager.
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2005-07-23
I guess it's about perspective; I'd be more likely to describe your mockup as dreadful than the current one, which I find very easy to find my way about. My only complaint would be that it's noticeably slow to start since the Python rewrite, but I don't use it enough to really care.
I don't see that there's anything particularly more usable about the mockup, other than the fact that it only exposes 1% of Beryl's configurability. Yes, the current one is probably a bit much for a new user, but it allows me to set Beryl up how I want it, not be hamstrung by developers who have arbitrarily picked a bunch of defaults for me.
Maybe there's a happy medium. Currently Beryl's only at 0.2.1 or something; it's obviously aimed at a pretty techy bunch of users who are happy to tweak it at great length.
The obvious answer would be to have both; let's say that hypothetically Ubuntu ships Beryl, they could bundle a simplified thing that clueless users aren't overwhelmed by, and have the current one available from their repository. Problem solved.