Enabling Compiz by default?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 03:24:05AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Have we considered enabling Compiz by default in GNOME and fall back to 
>> metacity if the driver or hardware don't support acceleration? That 
>> would get desktop effects out of the box on Intel and some ATI cards.
> 
> Compiz is too buggy to use - its still hopelessly broken with java menus
> and you'd want to use one of the actually maintained compositing managers
> instead. 

Well, replace Compiz (and Beryl) with Compiz Fusion when we get around 
to importing it into the Fedora repository.

Even then
> 
> - Do you know anyone who doesn't turn the effects off eventually ?

Quite a lot actually. I see it being discussed almost constantly and 
there is a lot of interest in it. I know many folks do think of it as a 
set of useless whiz bang effects and the presence of some excessive 
effects in Beryl and the cramped up preferences didn't help with that 
but it does offer a number of small usability improvements like the 
expose equivalent or preview of apps when switching between them are nice.

> - Do we care about the huge increase in power consumption ?

If we did, we would ideally fix the bugs with power consumption and with 
like Java. Getting it enabled by default (atleast in rawhide) might act 
as a good incentive.  Think SELinux.

Rahul