[compiz] Couldn't activate plugin 'rotate'

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Fri Jul 27 15:24:10 PDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 23:44 +0200, Dennis Kasprzyk wrote:
> Am Montag 16 Juli 2007 20:49:32 schrieb Kresimir Kukulj:
> > First, I would like to compliment you all for a great work you put in
> > developing compiz. I have it running for more that a month and it did
> > not crash. Stability is very good. Great work!
> >
> > Today I updated compiz from git tree and found that rotate generates
> > this error:
> >
> > compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'rotate'
> >
> The problem is that the "load after cube" got removed from the rotate 
> metadata. I reverted it now. 
> The ccs configuration system doesn't handle "require" rules automatically 
> as "load after" rules. There is also a case where we have a "require" and 
> a "load before" rule for the same plugin (3d).

I don't think it should be allowed to ask for some plugin to be required
but loaded after. Plugins that do this should be fixed so they don't
have to ask for such a relationship and the "load after cube"
information in the rotate metadata should be removed again.

-David



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