Fedora Core 7 - Compiz vs Beryl

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 14:00 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> alan (alan at clueserver.org) said: 
> > >Dear god no. Beryl is COMPLETELY INSANE.
> > 
> > Why do you say that?  In my experience, Beryl has been more stable and 
> > easier to configure than Compiz.  I have not looked at the code, however.
> 
> beryl-settings.
> 
>   [ ] slowness fix
>   
>    Toggle this option if beryl is slow or choppy. On some cards, enabling
>    it makes beryl smoother, and on others disabling makes beryl smoother.

Haha, that's just plain laziness.  They need to figure out what the
problem is, and fix it, or else figure out how to auto-detect which
setting works for which cards.  And lazy programmers are not what we
need.  The last thing you ask users to do is start toggling various
random settings in the hope that it makes a problem go away, without a
clear idea of _why_ the setting makes a difference.

Go beryl.

Dan

> The applet. 
> 
>   Has an option to 'force nvidia, aiglx, or xgl'.
> 
> That was after playing for less than a minute.
> 
> So... maybe if all the UI bits were taken out and shot. :)
> 
> Bill
>