I see many people hate Compiz (and use Beryl) just because it needs gconf + many other GNOME deps. I think this is the biggest advantage of Beryl over Compiz. Yes, users don't have to compile compiz with gconf, but how will they configure things? They'll modify the sources? Compiz needs a new configuration plugin. A text-based one, independent of tons of libraries would be great. Stjepan
On Jan 26, 07 08:54:36 +0100, Stjepan Glavina wrote:> I see many people hate Compiz (and use Beryl) just because it needs > gconf + many other GNOME deps. I think this is the biggest advantage of > Beryl over Compiz.[...]> Compiz needs a new configuration plugin. A text-based one, independent > of tons of libraries would be great.I guess David would gladly accept patches for an independent text-based configuration plugin, as long as it uses the standard plugin mechanisms. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ mat@mshopf.de Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 08:54 +0100, Stjepan Glavina wrote:> I see many people hate Compiz (and use Beryl) just because it needs > gconf + many other GNOME deps. I think this is the biggest advantage of > Beryl over Compiz. > > Yes, users don't have to compile compiz with gconf, but how will they > configure things? They'll modify the sources? > > Compiz needs a new configuration plugin. A text-based one, independent > of tons of libraries would be great.The number of people who are interested in text-based configuration support is very limited. Giving a few thousand SLED users a good user experience has higher priority for me than implementing something that a few users that hang out on the forum wants. I hope you can respect that. There's nothing that stops someone else from implementing some text-based storage of compiz options. If the dbus dependency is alright, then it shouldn't take much more than an hour or two to write a simple daemon that keeps a text file in sync with all options exported by compiz. - David