Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Compiz is dead

2012-12-30 Thread Daniel Foré
Here's the link to Sam's comment: permalinkhttp://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/15luo5/compiz_developer_ends_development_looking_onwards/c7nrme0 and his original blog post: http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/sideways/ On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Allen Lowe lallenl...@gmail.com

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Compiz is dead

2012-12-29 Thread David Gomes
I'm not that happy to hear this unlike Alfredo, but I really hope Ubuntu stops making Unity as a Compiz plugin, it was one of their worst decisions ever. Unity should be a WM itself. Right now, the whole Ubuntu desktop is a *dirty hack*, unlike on elementary OS, where our structure is clean and

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Compiz is dead

2012-12-29 Thread Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff
Prooflink: http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/sideways/ Libmutter may be not as great as it sounds because it bears an enormous legacy of X11 hacks and quirks back from Metacity days. I wish there was libweston that worked like libmutter for wayland instead of weston being a collection of

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Compiz is dead

2012-12-29 Thread Cody Garver
Rip in peace flame-bursting windows. Is it wishful thinking to hope libmutter will do all the wayland work for us? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 29, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Sergey \Shnatsel\ Davidoff ser...@elementaryos.org wrote: Prooflink: http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/sideways/

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Compiz is dead

2012-12-29 Thread Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff
2012/12/29 Cody Garver c...@elementaryos.org Rip in peace flame-bursting windows. Is it wishful thinking to hope libmutter will do all the wayland work for us? It will, but it won't be as optimized/fast/lightweight as Weston is. -- Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff OS architect @ elementary --

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Compiz is dead

2012-12-29 Thread Alfredo Hernández
Well, maybe happy is not the right word. What I mean is the same as you, I that Unity, for instance, is not optimal as elementary OS and GNOME Shell are. As you said, Compiz workarounds feel just like a dirty hack. On 29 Dec 2012 19:11, David Gomes da...@elementaryos.org wrote: I'm not that

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Compiz is dead

2012-12-29 Thread Daniel Foré
I think Mutter (and even Shell) does currently run on Wayland. But I could be wrong. Sam gave us a shout out on Reddit for using LibMutter saying that having two shells (GNOME and Pantheon) on one WM implementation is the way forward. Best Regards, Daniel Foré El dic 29, 2012, a las 10:26