Comments on: Like whores dancing for their trinkets

By: iain

iain — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:35:51 +0000

I’ve already been checking xfwm4, don’t worry.

By: thebluesgnr

thebluesgnr — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:22:21 +0000

You should look at xfwm4. It also has a built-in compositor similar to the one you want on metacity, and it’s also based on xcompmgr (with bug fixes that you’ll want to steal).

By: daniels

daniels — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:19:34 +0000

But you’re working on something for which there’s already a shit solution! Imagine a world in which there were multiple text editors, desktop environments, even compilers! ANARCHY.

By: iain

iain — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:22:29 +0000

Emmanuele: No, I added that after Russell complained that I was poaching developers and being rude and something something something…

By: Emmanuele Bassi

Emmanuele Bassi — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:17:51 +0000

russel, if you bothered going on gypsy's project page ou would have seen a link conveniently named why not gpsd.

By: mallum

mallum — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:51:24 +0000

Sausages!

By: Russell Nelson

Russell Nelson — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:22:56 +0000

You say that gpsd is lacking, you reinvent its wheel, encouraging people not to use it, and yet you never say why gpsd is lacking. We’d like to know. Because, of course, having two standards for talking to the same piece of hardware is NOT A GOOD THING, and if you want to usurp the existing standard, it is incumbent upon you to explain the problem with the existing standard that your new standard is solving.

By: iain

iain — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:09:31 +0000

Gypsy is named after my favourite MST3K character -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_%28MST3K%29

By: Chris Lord

Chris Lord — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:59:47 +0000

Yeah!

By: Eric Anholt

Eric Anholt — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:57:28 +0000

Given that compiz does eat my data and burn my toast every time I use it, a compmgr that only has a chance to do so sounds interesting to me. Hope to see it stabilized and working right some day.