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Sometimes the tech-savvy nature of the community works against us. The priority of this item has not been high enough to warrant attention until now because a broken graphical subsystem, devastating for the users of most OSes, is just a damned nuisance to us.

Then again, our priorities get a bit screwed, and resources get allocated in the wrong places. This fundamental feature won't ever garner a tenth the attention that the mostly useless Compiz Fusion does.

Some people might *seriously* disagree with you. Take my 1/2 blind father, who didn't like using computers until he was introduced to the "Enhanced Zoom" compiz-fusion plugin.

Just because that "damned shiny stuff" doesn't appeal to you doesn't mean it can't increase the usability of the desktop overall. My grandmother also got confused once when she minimized a window. She didn't know where it went. When introduced to compiz, she liked the minimize animation because it made sense where the window went.

Without some of the disgusting bling, a composited desktop can actually increase usability.

This was supposed to be in Feisty, if I remember correctly. This is the type of technology that will attract Linux users to Ubuntu and Windows users to Linux.

No, he meant 20th Century...

You're late.

this is not part of X because of what X actually is. It was up to the developers working on the specific desktop environment to implement the gui for setting up the configurations. All X does is provide the framework. So don't blame the X developers.

Also just because ubuntu is years behind the likes of novell and red hat doesn't mean that linux has all of a sudden gotten a usability boost. But it's nice to see ubuntu finally getting a step closer to fulfilling the promise of a user-friendly fool-proofed linux distribution. Keep it up and in 5 years you might actually get to the level of windows xp. Me ... i'm going os x ...