[Compcomm] A funny situation

[Franz Rogar]

2007/6/18, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk>:
> Franz Rogar wrote:
> > 2007/6/18, RYX <ryx at ryxperience.com>:
> >
> >> Imagine this "funny" situation:
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Imagine this other "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: "This is my compositing window manager. It's an open
> > source project ;) You can take a look at opencompositing.org. What
> > you're seeing is Compiz (the core) and some plugins made by the
> > community called CompComm. Also, in the web page, you can find other
> > interesting open source compositing applications as kiba-doc and
> > screenlets."
> >
> I think that is what RYX meant by easier to
> just tell them to go there and dont ask questions.
> > Note: I'm sure that a my friend doesn't know anything about
> > compositing, if not he/she will know about Compiz, L3G, Metisse etc...
> >
> >
> >> He says: "Now that's cool - where can I get
> >> it? At compiz.org?".
> >>
> >
> > As I stayed clearly that they're "open source compositing"
> > applications, he/she will look for them at "opencompositing.org". So,
> > he/she will not ask that.
> >
> If his friends are anything like some of mine, they will
> look blankly and ask whats 'open source', then they would
> ask whats 'compositing'.  After explaining what source
> code was and how it could be open (free beer etc) and
> then explaining what 'compositing' was I think they would
> probably think twice before asking me anything again ;)
>
> >
> >> He seems surprised and asks: "So I can go to opencompositing.org and
> >> just download that compiz window manager?".
> >>
> >
> > I answer hime: "Yes, but you'll get only the basic interface. As I
> > stayed previosly, you can download the community plugins called
> > CompComm".
> >
> >
> >> 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?".
> >>
> >>
> >
> > He/she will not ask this, unless he/she is idiot 'cause I've stated
> > that "it's opensource".
> >
> > I add: "You can take support on opencompositing.org for both compiz
> > and compcomm. Info about those proyects can be found also in
> > opencompositing.org and, for more concrete info about Compiz, you can
> > see "compiz.info" (not compiz.org)
> >
> >
> >> He says: "Ahh I see ...", while walks away confused and irritated.
> >> Straightly back to his windows PC.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Are you thinking my friend is subnormal?
> >
> Most of my friends are :D
>
> I still know people who type urls into google, then click
> the first response (which is normally a paid ad for a
> spyware company)
>
> I do explain, but he refuses to change.  Now I just laugh.
>
> I tell them all that what they see is 'Linux' not compiz, not
> a wow open source compositing window manager.
>
> Just 'Linux' - If they ever get far enough to install Linux
> then either I installed it for them or they are smart enough
> to find compiz for themselves or Ill point them to compiz.org
> for all the info (core, plugins, apps, dev mailing lists - the lot).
> >
> >> This is what you all aim at.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Don't get wrong: you must give accurate and structured info to friends
> > if you want they stay with you.
> >
> And not bore them to death with long explanations about
> open source, compositing, forks etc etc.  Just tell them how
> to make the cube rotate.  Thats all they care about ;)
>
> They don't know or care that some plugins were written by
> the community and some by David, they don't care what the
> core is either.
>
> >
> >> Rico
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I think you still see the bottle middle-empty of water instead of middle-full.
> >
> >
>

Note: I've kept the whole post 'cause this is the general answer that
host them all ;)

That's why Beryl had packagers and official repos so newbies only need
to add the repo and install :)

-- 
Thanks in anyway,
        Franz Rogar