Fedora Core 7 - Compiz vs Beryl

[dragoran]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:20 -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote:
>   
>> And as of the last version, compiz had a horrid configuration (read
>> almost none) for the different plugins, etc.
>>     
>
> Nearly if not all of it is through GConf. While no graphical preferences
> capplet or similar exists for it yet, the keys are listed in detail in
> gconf-editor and modifying them gets you the results you need/want.
>
>   
there is a configuration tool for compiz that comunicate with compiz 
using dbus
http://www.go-compiz.org/index.php?title=Compiz-Settings
I would like to see this in extras (but requires compiz > 0.3.3) so only 
devel for now
>> That needs to be fixed. I like the GREAT configurability of Beryl.
>>     
>
> That configurability comes at the cost of a disastrous UI and many cases
> of Not-Invented-Here syndrome (using flat files for storage instead of
> GConf, using its own themes instead of those of Metacity/Cairo/GTK, et.
> al). That, and the fact that the people of Beryl is purportedly much
> less strict about the quality and consistency of code accepted. 
>
> I've got three words for that: No thank you.
>   
+1
for me beryl is nothing but a hack (much less stable than compiz)