Instead of use compiz windows manager, I want to use matchbox, but I want reuse compiz plugins, means I use matchbox + compiz as windows manager + 3D desktop effect solution, would you please give me some suggestion about my plan. What about the effort? Would you please give me some suggestion. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: David Reveman [mailto:davidr at novell.com] Sent: 2007?5?18? 2:27 To: Zhu, Jack Cc: compiz at lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: apply for compiz doc On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 17:32 +0800, Zhu, Jack wrote:> Reveman, > > I am a software engineer of Intel working on open source, I want to do > some research on desktop, compiz is a very cool software, it is a > compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via > OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any > desktop environment. > > But to my depressing, I have not found any detailed documents help me > understand inside compiz, > > would you do me a favor.Some compiz internals are still changing rapidly and there are some major work left before I'm happy with the design and feel that it's worth writing documentation. You can probably expect a 1.0 release to contain proper documentation but it's not going to be available anytime soon. The best advice I can give you right now is to just to look at existing plugins and post questions to the compiz mailing list. Me or someone else is usually able to respond in reasonable time. - David
Instead of use compiz windows manager, I want to use matchbox, but I want reuse compiz plugins, means I use matchbox + compiz as windows manager + 3D desktop effect solution, would you please give me some suggestion about my plan. What about the effort? Would you please give me some suggestion. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: David Reveman [mailto:davidr at novell.com] Sent: 2007?5?18? 2:27 To: Zhu, Jack Cc: compiz at lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: apply for compiz doc On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 17:32 +0800, Zhu, Jack wrote:> Reveman, > > I am a software engineer of Intel working on open source, I want to do > some research on desktop, compiz is a very cool software, it is a > compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via > OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any > desktop environment. > > But to my depressing, I have not found any detailed documents help me > understand inside compiz, > > would you do me a favor.Some compiz internals are still changing rapidly and there are some major work left before I'm happy with the design and feel that it's worth writing documentation. You can probably expect a 1.0 release to contain proper documentation but it's not going to be available anytime soon. The best advice I can give you right now is to just to look at existing plugins and post questions to the compiz mailing list. Me or someone else is usually able to respond in reasonable time. - David
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:42 +0800, Zhu, Jack wrote:> Instead of use compiz windows manager, I want to use matchbox, but I want reuse compiz plugins, means I use matchbox + compiz as windows manager + 3D desktop effect solution, would you please give me some suggestion about my plan. > What about the effort? Would you please give me some suggestion. > Thanks.I assume you want to use matchbox because it's lightweight and designed to work well with small displays. The effects that exist in compiz plugins require OpenGL so there's no way you can avoid that dependency. Other than that, compiz's modular design allows it to be as lightweight as matchbox and whatever special functionality you need that matchbox provides could be added to compiz through plugins. If there's anything in compiz core, other than the OpenGL dependency, that makes matchbox more appropriate for you, I'm very interested in fixing that. My suggestion is that you use compiz as windows manager and we'll make sure it fits your needs. Its modular design should make that straightforward. - David