[Compcomm] A funny situation

RYX ryx at ryxperience.com
Mon Jun 18 08:15:18 EDT 2007


Imagine this "funny" situation:

A friend visits me and says: "Oh you have a nice desktop there and such
cool transparent windows. What is it that creates such nice compositing
effects and transparency?". I answer him: "It's called compiz - it is a
window manager for Linux.". He says: "Now that's cool - where can I get
it? At compiz.org?". I say: "No, it is hosted at opencomositing.org.".
He seems surprised and asks: "So I can go to opencompositing.org and
just download that compiz window manager?". I answer him: "No, you have
too download something called compcomm, but only until it has a new
name.".

He is even more surprised and asks: "But why can't I just go to
compiz.org and download that compiz window manager and all those nice
effects and plugins and addons?".

I answer him: "No, believe me. It is much easier to go to
opencompositing.org and download that compcomm. Only if you want to have
info about or support for compiz, then you have to go to compiz.org".
He says: "Ahh I see ...", while walks away confused and irritated.
Straightly back to his windows PC.

This is what you all aim at.

Rico




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