Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Feb 2006 18:21 UTC, submitted by GhePeU
David Reveman of Novell shares his thoughts on Xgl, Metacity, and more."I've been getting a lot of mail from people asking me about my thoughts on AIGLX, the GL compositing work being done on Metacity and nVidia's xdevconf paper. Instead of replying to everyone individually, I though I'd send a mail to the Xorg list."
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2005-07-06
I do appreciate the comment about how Compiz is desktop agnostic. This is definitely the way to go, rather than trying to work on seperate KWin / Metacity patches and structural changes.
I appreciate the need for choice in the OSS environment, but having a common core for the window manager is really the only sensible way to go. It's fresh, new, fit-for-purpose and GL-by-design code. Definitely re-use what can be reused from Metacity et-al, but a fresh start is often required to drive forward innovative and fast-evolving software.
PS - David, thankyou for Compiz and XGL. Also thanks to the people who packaged it for Ubuntu Dapper - its lovely