Comment 13 for bug 63208
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| garyjefferson (garyjefferson123) wrote | #13 |
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> > Compiz/Beryl *WORKED* in edgy, and the edgy libwnck packages *have the patches applied*.
> no they didn't, you likely installed the patched version from the non-Ubuntu compiz archive. We had some discussion with the guy working on those packages after tracking a bunch of crasher sent on launchpad which turned to be due to the patches, you can read bug #72804 about it
2.16.1-0ubuntu1.1 works. That sure looked to me like an official package, but you must be right. Sorry for the lie.
> Lot of users are happy with compiz using workspaces as it's working at the moment in Ubuntu, exageration is not a way to argue and I don't think many users will switch distributions only because of the compiz cube effect lacks make the workspace switcher display one area which is a detail
I'm sure you know more about this than I do, but I could not get compiz cube to work no matter what I tried, no matter how many forums or google searches I did to try to find out the secret. The only thing that worked for me was downgrading to old libwnck.
As for users switching, again, maybe you know lots more than I do, but I can certainly give you anecdotal evidence. I convinced one friend to move to ubuntu with edgy and all the beryl/compiz goodness. Now he is going back to fedora because it works there out of the box but is broken in feisty. I can also tell you that *a lot* of people moved to SLED when Novell first started demo-ing compiz and spinny cube, both from windows and from redhat. Sounds silly, I know, but these effects are very attractive to a certain class of users, and the actual productivity gains (not waiting for redraws while switching desktops, expose-like functionality, alt-tab sanity, etc) really are things that are hard to give up once you've experienced them. But, like I said, that's all anecdotal, and your opinion on how valuable this stuff is certainly carries more weight than mine.
Sorry if I came off as beligerant -- that wasn't my intent. Really. You all do some awesome work, and it doesn't help to have whiners like me pestering you. I'm only pushing because I really like ubuntu, and I don't want ubuntu users (including myself) to live in pain (or to flee to other distros) just because we've come to expect functioning compiz/beryl.