[compiz] Tried out Beryl (Animation pugin)

Marco Cabizza marco87 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 18:32:24 PDT 2006


Il giorno mar, 03/10/2006 alle 21.20 -0400, Shawn Starr ha scritto:
> > > And a registry editor is better?
> >
> > 	Yes, if we're talking about gconf. To integrate nicely with GNOME you
> > would need to fetch information through gconf anyway, sooner or later.
> > GTK+ gui ( which is a nice thing ) or not I see no reason not to use
> > gconf as a backend.
> 
> > Ciao
> > ~marco
> 
> Fair, but you assume people use GNOME which needs gconf. That imho should be 
> decoupled from compiz. As a separate package (David mentioned this already). 
> As a KDE user, I should not need it, unless compiz is gnome specific only. In 
> which case, Beryl makes things DE independant (aside from beryl using GTK+ 
> widgets but everyone has GTK anyway thse days).

	You can't *just* make things DE-independent by using a totally random
configuration format. I'm a GNOME user and I'd like a program to have a
gconf backend. You should expect a kwhatthehell backend instead of
whatever beryl is using right now :)

Ciao
~marco

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Questa parte del messaggio =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E8?= firmata
Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/attachments/20061004/781b1854/attachment.pgp


More information about the compiz mailing list