freedesktop.org and accelerated desktop standards

[Travis Watkins]

On 12/5/06, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes <cerdiogenes at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> What I think that is a rationale decision is have a way to tell the CWM
> to be only a Window Manager (WM), since gnome-mag will have built-in
> support for Composition Manager (CM):
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348375

This is, uh, not really possible for compiz and beryl. They have _no_
fallback code and as far as I can tell little to no interest in
supporting that. The solution appears to be to load metacity or kwin
or whatever if you don't want a CWM.

> This way if the CWM doesn't support the plugin architecture implemented
> by gnome-mag it ask to it become only a WM and gnome-mag start to be the
> CM.

Why couldn't the CWM just implement the gnome-mag API? I know there
are plans for beryl to do just that.

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Travis Watkins
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