[Compcomm] My ideas (for the record)

[Danny Baumann]

Hi,

> I think they are not directly competing solutions. They are very similar
> in many ways, but they are very different in other areas. The
> compizutil-module is entirely object-oriented, while the ccs(?) is more
> procedural. 

You are comparing apples and pears ;-)
Yes, the C API of procedural (as is C), but the Python API of it is
object oriented (as is Python, as is compizutil) ;-)

> And ccs needs its own special plugin loaded, compizutil
> works with the standard plugins (yes - currently only dbus).

But the problem begins if you don't assume dbus to be there and want to
transparently switch backends ;-)

> And you are right, ccs offers more backends and maybe some more things,
> mostly because it is one year old and has many contributors. 

Umm, CCS is 3 months old and has (at least the library) exactly 2
contributors: Dennis and me. Quinn and Patrick did the Python part.

> But let's not get distracted by this settings-stuff. Does everyone agree
> with the ideas of finally uniting under one project and allowing people
> to start sub-projects? Then we could try to lay out some basic
> guidelines for all that.

At least I agree ;-)

Regards,

Danny