On 08/04/2014 20:35, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Remember all the hype that arose when Beryl was announced, with >> per-window transparency settings, the rotating cube, wobbly windows, >> and all that. It was flashy, and I do think it made some heads turn to >> Linux, previously perceived as plainly fugly. >> >> Beryl and its ideas came and went. Yes, some ideas stuck and became >> useful. But I'm very glad that did not become the standard for desktop >> interaction. > > It was the standard -- for a while -- and for that while it was the > golden years of the Linux desktop (in my mind) > > We had features no one else did, people were pushing the bounds of what > we thought were posible and having a great time doing it. Yeah, a lot of > it was silly, but a lot of really good stuff came out of it that I can't > get these days. > > After the KDE4 and GNOME3 rewrites (which are hugely important and vital > to our success) I don't mind Compiz died, but for a *long* time this was > the standard, and it was the most advanced window manager. > > Someone remind me; is Unity still a Compiz plugin, or did that die too?
Unity 7 (as used up until Ubuntu 14.04) still uses Compiz, Unity 8 uses Qt's compositing for all its fanciness. -Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53444843.9080...@ubuntu.com
