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bonq.net/flipp » Blog Archive » daily del.icio.us — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:25:25 +0000

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By: …for the adult in you » We get letters: two projects

…for the adult in you » We get letters: two projects — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:08:41 +0000

[...] see recently that Iain work to integrate compositing in metacity. I’ll also work on composite manager (outside metacity) which use cairo for rendering. I have [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:24:12 +0000

+1 (and then some)

I’m in the Intel P965 situation, too. Gusty has no Compiz love for me and I really miss two things: (a) AWN and (b) better Alt-TAB. TIA.

By: Jason D. Clinton

Jason D. Clinton — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:27:43 +0000

This is such wonderful news! This kind of measured incremental improvement to a solid foundation (Metacity) is exactly the kind of progress that results in software stable enough to use in production. The rabid-eye-candy-by-way-of-throwing-everything-out-the-window that is Compiz is frustrating.

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:44:12 +0000

Interestingly, the window previews in Compiz’s Alt-Tab is one thing I don’t find an improvement. Perhaps that’s because most of my windows are white with black text in it, and indistinguishable from each other when shrunk to thumbnail size.

Good news about the compositor in metacity. It will be very welcome by the folks whose video cards can’t handle 3D very well. (For example, I cannot use Compiz on a side-by-side dual-head layout, because the Nautilus desktop window at 2560×1024 doesn’t fit into a single 2048×2048 texture. And this with a relatively powerful Intel 965GM chip with 256 megs of video RAM.)

By: …for the adult in you » 2007-11-17: some releases and some discussions

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:12:33 +0000

[...] Iain’s compositing post continued to be the scene of much discussion. [...]

By: Harm Hilvers

Harm Hilvers — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:43:05 +0000

It’s great to see someone working on the compositor in Metacity. It would be really nice to get the mini-previews in the Alt+Tab switcher, since it gives the desktop a more modern feeling. Nice, very nice that you’re working on this.

Although I know it’s not yet really the time, I’d like to mention another feature I would like to see in Metacity: the possibility to get an overview of all the active workspaces. Mac OS X has this, and it’s called Spaces. Compiz Fusion has it, and there it’s called Expo.

By: gus

gus — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:27:56 +0000

AWN page is on https://launchpad.net/awn
Main developer blog: http://njpatel.blogspot.com/

There you can find a lot of videos. One of the things that i really love about this bar is that icons are always present on all the workspaces and when you click on a icon on the dock and the application related is on another workspace the dock automatically switch you to that workspace.

Cheers!

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:06:28 +0000

Rui: Søren’s compositor was abandoned (I think he was moved to other duties when his employer decided there were better uses of his time, but I don’t know the details); I tried to pick it up, but the major breakage was the infamous red window bug on some particular graphics cards, and since I didn’t have access to those cards, I wasn’t able to debug the problem. It took well over a month of my development time away from fixing other things and gave me nothing back in return. :(

gus: I’m not familiar with the awn dock bar; can you show us some links?

By: Patrys

Patrys — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:36:21 +0000

My vote goes to previews in alt-tab and in desktop switcher :)