"Compiz is the compositing window manager that works on top of Xgl or AIGLX to enable Desktop Effects. Recently, a community developer named Quinn Storm announced that she would start a Compiz-based fork project called 'Beryl', citing frustration with Novell regarding getting her code fixes accepted into the Compiz upstream source tree. We called Compiz/Xgl maintainer David Reveman to get his side of the story."
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Member since:2005-07-24
"""I agree with you about most of the effects."""
Out of curiosity, I installed Xgl and Compiz on my Ubuntu system. I *think* that what I got was the Quinn version.
I thought the wobbly Windows were overdone. But then, I maximized a window... and was momentarily overcome by an atack of vertigo!!! Mon Dieu!!!
I'm a big Linux fan, but when I read about how we're trouncing MS's Aero with our 3D desktop, I can't help thinking "For all that is good and decent in this world, I hope not!!!". ;-)
Edited 2006-10-07 19:18
Member since:2005-07-06
> a truly hardware composited desktop, something we really didn't have before.
But what is so precious about having a 'hardware composited desktop'?
Note that this is a very difficult thing to do right: for example having good font rendering means that the font renderer knows where the pixel are, if an application draws its text to a texture, but then after the texture is shifted or scaled by a 'compositing engine', then it is likely that the resulting text will look ugly..
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2005-07-06
I agree with you about most of the effects. I find useful the expose-like one, the new alt-tab, and that's pretty much it. However, and I think this is constantly overlooked, the importance of XGL and AIGLX is that they provide us with a truly hardware composited desktop, something we really didn't have before.