Darren J Moffat wrote: > > I don't think it should be removed instead a simple extension to have it look > in ~/.compiz/plugins/`uname -p`/ before ~/.compiz/plugins/ > > Is 'uname -p' enough? Won't that only account for solaris on different processors?
I don't know about others, but my homedirs are shared among more OS than just SPARC and X86 Solaris. Finding something that will handle all the combinations might be too much though. > Note that the whole Mozilla suite of programs suffers from this same > problem, but they at least have an environment variable that users can > set to use for finding plugins, eg: > MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/lib/sparc/mozilla/plugins/ > > If compiz has a similar environment variable for plugins then that for > me would be sufficient. > > Instead this might the most flexible solution. Users with multi OS/platform home dirs could handle it in their login scripts. > Disabling plugins completely is for me worse than not being able to > support a directory structure containing multiple architectures. > > I agree. -Kyle
