Comments on: Desktop effects activation (compiz)

By: Jane B

Jane B — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:34:59 +0000

Oh! Perfect job!
Very good and helpful post.
Thx, your blog in my RSS reader now

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:36:45 +0000

Interesting (read: odd) bit of design going in with that dialog.

“Info” is an abbreviation of “Information” but it is such a generically vague description the tab might as well be labeled “General”.

I’m hoping that line of stars is in fact a radio list with really clever theming.
Similarly I hope that icon indicating that accessibility is disabled is a cleverly themed checkbox, because there is a certain irony in using a non-accessible custom widget to tell users that accessibility is turned off.

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:26:49 +0000

Because there’s more than one window manager in the world, because not everyone wants to spend the amount of memory that Compiz requires on a window manager, because some people want their window manager to get on with its job and keep out of their way, because Metacity has had more than five years of work put into making it stable and reliable, and because last I checked there was only one official GNOME window manager and its name didn’t begin with a C.

By: Joey Reid

Joey Reid — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:42:44 +0000

Why is this even necessary? Why not enable compiz if the requirements (whatever OpenGL extension) are met?

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:32:15 +0000

Is there going to be a way of turning the compositor on if they choose not to use Compiz?

By: rodrigo

rodrigo — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:32:09 +0000

As for the stars thing, yes, I tend to agree with you, it’s confusing and serves really no purpose

By: Karl Lattimer

Karl Lattimer — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:16:08 +0000

I have a suggestion, please move the profile bit to the bottom of the window and make it a combo box so I can type a profile name and save it also.

By: Kalle Persson

Kalle Persson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:20:32 +0000

Great work! This will make a lot more sense!

By: EW

EW — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:16:30 +0000

Agree on the stars - I was confused about that - looks like a typical rating system. A slider would be better, but even that - adjusting the level with a slider doesn’t make a lot of sense because the list of what is enabled at certain points isn’t clear from that. One click to the right enables more - but what is that more? Even if the stars are not used to set the number of effects enabled, but be a representation of how many are, it is not defined and clear and just a “look what we can do in the UI” kind of thing that is detached from specifics.

Thanks on the ccsm thing - I didn’t even know it was available.

By: SchAmane

SchAmane — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:40:30 +0000

There have to be another widget used for set level of compiz FX.
This one looks more like ranting/rating to me…