Sebastien, I understand what you are saying re: Compiz/Beryl not being
supported. But, I think that's a bad position to take. Compiz/Beryl
*WORKED* in edgy, and the edgy libwnck packages *have the patches
applied*. You can't enable functionality like this in one version, then
disable it in the next without users complaining.
Historically, ubuntu has been a really good distro for compiz/beryl.
IIRC, there were good instructions for getting this stuff working even
before SuSE/Novell had a good non-broken release for it. So if ubuntu
is now deciding to abandon that cutting edge advantage over a
beauracratic upstream patch policy, I'd say that's a shame.
BTW, google says that there are *A LOT* of users experiencing this same
pain, and this launchpad report is not the first place most of them will
come (it took some time to find it myself). Put yourself in the user's
shoes -- feisty seems terribly broken because fundamental functionality
that worked in edgy now no longer works. Spinny-cube functionality is
sort of feature #1 for compiz/beryl. If it doesn't work, it makes the
rest of the ball sort of useless.
It is hard for most average users to find the secret solution to get it
to work in feisty, and the secret solution is really a terrible
solution, as you pointed out. This leaves the user with only a couple
of options, a) suffer without the feature or b) find a distro that
supports the feature.
Another way to put it:
| Beryl/Compiz Work?
---------------------------------------
fedora | yes
sled | yes
ubuntu | *NO*
I'm not saying don't pursue the upstream patch policy, I'm just begging
you to consider doing something [that sounds relatively easy == apply
the known patches] about this in the meantime. Please stop the bleeding
;)
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Patches For Compiz/Beryl Compatibility
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