Anyone using the Fedora7 KDE-spin?

[Gilboa Davara]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 02:29 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
> > On 6/6/07, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> >> Kevin Kempter wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is Kpilot included, and does it work?
> >>
> >> Yes, and (afaik) yes (no complaints or bugs file yet).
> >>
> >> -- Rex
> > 
> > Only one posted KDE complaint from user who installed from Live CD:
> > Updates notification is not working. The puplet applet is not running.
> > Need to add it to Autostart in KDE.
> 
> Would be nice to have desktop effects menu option if it isn't already there.
> 
> Rahul
> 

It depends on what effects you are looking for.
kwin 3.5 already has composite support - while not compiz-beryl style,
it does work out of the box on both OSS drivers (ATI, Intel) and closed
drivers (ATI, nVidia) with no apparent glitches.

You can configure it using Control Center -> Desktop -> Window behavior.
(Yep, KDE is a bit weak when it comes to logical UIs...)

As for using compiz/beryl out of the box, well, last time I checked,
both replace kwin (which has a far more extensive feature-set compared
to metacity/etc making it a big no-no for me) and play badly with the
KDE pager. In short, for now, I'd suggest people wait for KDE4's new
composite/AiGLX implementation.

- Gilboa