Some helpful Ubunteros came and fixed Thomas’s laptop, which meant that Benjamin’s patch got reviewed (good work there), and also that the question was raised about what api.[ch] are good for.
Most of the checkin activity today was from Iain Holmes with his new compositor rewrite (or, as he has called the branch, the Bling-Tastic Bucket o’Bling). I am hugely excited about this; I hope Iain will write about his experiences here later.
On Launchpad, a discussion has been going on about whether it should be possible to set the width of window borders in general rather than its being down to the theme. Having too-narrow window borders makes resizing windows difficult, but some people don’t like the way it looks. This briefly spilled over into GNOME Bugzilla. It would seem to be a good plan to ask people to make default themes have large borders.
Alex Turner identified a place where the code could be made clearer and more easily optimised by the compiler, which seems promising.
A few months back, Matt Harley wrote a post about why he’s running Metacity rather than Compiz, which should be interesting reading for the future if we want to know why people choose Metacity rather than any other way of managing their desktop. Gentle reader, if you do, why do you use Metacity?
Photo: The Vintry, St Albans. Photo by Gary Houston, public domain.
