Seeing as my bug wasthat the KDE systems settings button for configuring compiz failed to launch a configuration dialog (and hence was useless), my only requirement is the default kubuntu configuration launches a working compiz configuration manager. The default was not correct. I mentioned ccsm because that seemed to be the only option. If there are other, better options, that would be fine.
It is set in a default KDE configuration file to be simple-ccsm, which was not working under natty, and appears removed from oneiric. I just tracked done the actual package, and it's kde-runtime-data, and the package in oneiric still is set to use simple-ccsm. (I must have just chosen kdebase, hoping someone on that project would know which particular subpackage was the correct one.) That's why I originally recorded this as a kde bug, not compiz. I assume any new Unity tool will be GTK-based. I'm not sure whether that will work for Kubuntu. (I'm not a Kubuntu dev, just a user, and I also have the standard Gnome and Unity shells installed, though I rarely use them.) But even that would be better than the current: referencing a package that isn't in the distribution, when a working alternative does. So I'm redirecting this to the kde-runtime-data package, and changing the status back to "New." I'll leave it to those developers to decide whether it is an opinion. (Why is CCSM considered dangerous? Is it just too many options for most users?) ** Package changed: compiz (Ubuntu) => kde-runtime (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: kde-runtime (Ubuntu) Status: Opinion => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kde-runtime in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/739870 Title: Default compiz configuration program should be ccsm To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-runtime/+bug/739870/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs