Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Aug 2007 23:11 UTC
"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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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. 
Member since:2005-07-23
One fundamental feature of Compiz/Fusion, is that sleeping applications get dark, instead of repeating everything over it. Without Compiz/Fusion, applications seem to mess up graphically, not responding, so that other applications gets repainted onto the canvas of the sleeping application. Making it darker, as in Compiz/Fusion, is much much more intuitive for the average user.
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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.