"Ubuntu Xorg maintainer Bryce Harrington recently demonstrated the BulletProof-X feature that is planned for inclusion in Ubuntu 7.10. BulletProof-X provides a failsafe mode which will ensure that users never have to manually configure their graphics hardware settings from the command line."
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Member since:2005-11-05
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.
Member since:2005-07-24
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Without some of the disgusting bling, a composited desktop can actually increase usability.
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Without the hype, the instability, and the usability regressions, the additional capabilities that compositing affords could indeed improve the desktop. Especially in really unsexy areas, like helping 1/2 blind people. 
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2005-07-24
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.