[Compcomm] My ideas (for the record)

[Guillaume Seguin]

2007/6/15, RYX <ryx at ryxperience.com>:
> Am Freitag, den 15.06.2007, 16:05 -0400 schrieb Robert Carr:
> > On 6/15/07, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Michael Roy wrote:
> > > > If the subdomains idea is the one we use, and
> > > > personally, I think it is a fantastic idea, we could
> > > > even, I suppose, call it compcomm.compiz.org for now.
> > > > We could create a front page with a "we need a name
> > > > announcement," create some temporary artwork, with,
> > > > say, a big tacky question mark image in place of an
> > > > icon.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it be better to describe this new project before
> > > rushing into anything which will look tacky?
> > >
> > > I still have no idea what this project is supposed to
> > > represent.  I suspect a lot of other people just assume
> > > they know but there is no real reference to define it.
> > >
> > > Please can the people with the big ideas about the new
> > > project post a message in the compiz forum explaining
> > > what your new project is and what it offers that is not
> > > already offered by compiz (or the community part).
> > >
> > > I dont think 'extra community plugins' is a valid reason
> > > to create a new subproject.  It should be more defined than
> > > that.
> > >
> > > Pretend that nobody has heard of your new project or knows
> > > what its all about.  Your idea has to be defined before you can
> > > add a name and create a website.  The first question people
> > > will ask it 'what is it?', not 'whats it called?'
> > >
> > > Is it just a project to include ex-beryl plugins?  Is it to provide
> > > as much eye-candy as possible?  Make Compiz easy to use?
> > >
> > > Once these questions are answered it will be easy to name
> > > the projects, there may even be more than 1 project which is
> > > needed (in order to keep their goals separate).
> >
> > I'm pretty sure we've clarified this time and time again. In general
> > it is to help create a full composite desktop. A large part of this is
> > creation of a large set of plugins for Compiz. In addition to this we
> > have things like creation of the configuration system. Also we want to
> > work with other projects to make this more feasible, like mine and
> > Dennises recent patches to Nautilus and KDesktop to draw a transparent
> > desktop and allow Compiz to paint the actual background.
> Why don't you give a comment on Mike's idea instead of answering the
> rethorical questions? ;) ... What do you think of it?
>
> Concerning what Guillaume proposed - I, personally, would consider
> moving the screenlets to such a sub-project, create a subforum under
> "Community Enhancements" (only an example) for them and have them
> integrated better into compiz (e.g. include python-based widget-plugin
> in package).
>

Awesome :)

> btw: It would be cool if a sub-project could use some sort of individual
> repo under its subdomain (like git.screenlets.compiz.org).
>

Mh I'm not sure that it would be useful or anything, but it's doable
pretty easily.

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