Sergio Enrique Schvezov wrote:
> Wrong thread?
>
> James Cornell wrote:
>> Mario Goebbels wrote:
>>  
>>>> Yes, compiz will be available.
>>>>           
>>> Bears the question for some sensible default settings. I think 
>>> regarding direct effects, shadows and window fading, otherwise 
>>> nothing, in my opinion.
>>>
>>> -mg
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>> It's really not the effects, specifically shading and fading are not 
>> what I'm concerned about.  Yes, it's a matter of sensible defaults, 
>> although they have made it easy to change the settings.  Here's an 
>> example, I don't use formatting (B/I/U/Font/Color) and I disable 
>> emotes, but the toolbar which is part of every chat window is still 
>> there, you have to manually per session per chat window click options 
>> and uncheck show formatting toolbars.  If I don't want formatting, 
>> and I disabled it in options, the toolbar (Which is next to useless 
>> when it's disabled) shouldn't show up.  The other issue is skinning, 
>> I don't think the default GTK+ theme they follow fits well enough 
>> with most host environments.  (Changing the GTK+ theme also doesn't 
>> fit the issue, since I think Nimbus is one of the better ones and 
>> actually like it)  The way chat windows are layed out just isn't 
>> flexible enough, or sensibly good by default.  I do have some bias 
>> from seeing how well the Adium team on OSX has presented their 
>> client..  (It just doesn't sit right that a client using the same 
>> backend lacks certain functionality)  Indeed this is specific to the 
>> framework they use, Cocoa which has prebinding and other neat 
>> attributes, but GTK+ is more than capable just look at GNOME in general)
>>
>> James
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Oh.  Whoops didn't see "Compiz" but yeah.  I agree with Compiz too, I've 
seen some really silly defaults on Linux distros.

James

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