[Compcomm] The Next Step

[Danny Baumann]

Hi,

> > Well, developer fighting may be fun, but as a user I have quite a few 
> > features outside of the cube zoom that I preferred in beryl.  I 
> > preferred the stability in compiz for the most part, but I still used 
> > beryl because of the following.
> > Emerald
> 
> Works with Compiz GIT and should have a "Stable" release when Compiz
> 0.5.2 is out, hopefully.

Indeed, that should be the case :-)
That reminds me that it would be nice to get a release timeframe from
David for releases so we could plan our releases according to that
timeframe.

> > Cube Zoom
> 
> I'm not sure if this is going into core, but I think it is at least one
> of the few options that ought to.

Actually this is a (IMHO good) change in the rotate plugin. It shouldn't
be too hard to pull this out, but we actually need someone who can clean
up the code and thus needs to understand it ;-)

> > A decently fast resize plugin (because of the stretch/outline options)
> 
> Resizing is very improved (even without those options) in 0.5 such that
> my old ATI card can resize smoothly now. =D

Beryl's resize was way slower in normal mode than it needed to be. I
have a patch on the Compiz ML
(http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2007-April/001898.html)
which adds the other resize modes without introducing regressions in
normal mode. Please try it, I'm still waiting for feedback ;-)

> > An unsupported tiling plugin (this is a needed feature that should be 
> > supported IMO)
> 
> I agree that tiling is pretty essential to window management and a core
> plugin probably should be created (ideally, maybe even use Scale's
> algorithm and to lay out windows such that they're not necessarily
> maximized to take up the most real estate possible? I don't know).

Tile is already ported to work with compiz - the gitweb for the repo
it's in is here:
http://gitweb.beryl-project.org/?p=compiz/compiz-plugins-beryl-premerge;a=summary

> > I think the vidcap plugin is also for beryl originally isn't it?  (not 
> > that there aren't other ways to capture but it's a very easy one to use).
> 
> I'm not sure as I never used that feature.

Vidcap still needs to be ported.

> > I also much prefer the beryl-settings manager.
> 
> The need for a settings manager is getting some good discussion in the
> forum. I don't have the link on hand at the moment, but you ought to be
> able to find the thread pretty easily. =)

It's here: http://forum.compiz.org/viewtopic.php?t=869

Regards,

Danny