[GRLUG] Xgl & Compiz

[Justin Denick]

I rolled it for my gentoo box, but as I use KDE there really wasn't any
thinf for me. I got all of the nice affects, but no window borders. Compiz
is the window manager that was built to work in gnome not KDE. So I guess
XGL is cool, but they need to develop something for the rest of us to play
with.

On 5/17/06, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> True.  No one would be expected to try all combinations
> of hardware.  But "they" could still specify the items they
> know work.  M$ ( Microsoft ) clearly provides untold drivers
> so that its OSes work ( I use the words OSes and work
> loosely here.... ) on as much hardware as possible.  Sure,
> M$ has the resources ( a.k.a. a monopoly ) to do this,
> but it's important to have a few reference systems that are
> know to work well.  If a developer just happens to have a
> PC made up of oddball parts, that could,  and maybe does
> now and then,  cause a lot of trouble for others,  and
> perhaps give the product a bad reputation.
>
>   -Bob
>
>
> On 5/16/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 5/16/06, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As a general comment,  it appears that vendors
> > >  of all stripes might want to be more explicit about
> > >  what hardware their offerings have been tried on.
> > >  Sun Microsystems used to provide an extensive
> > >  list of hardware that was known to work with its
> > >  products - probably still does.  This could save a
> > >  potential user the ordeal of having to sort out
> > >  hardware issues first thing if that is not their interest.
> >
> > Just not possible most of the time.  Are you aware of the number of
> > individual PC components in the wild?  Simply aquiring the hardware
> > isn't feasable.  Alternatively, every attempt at a distributed
> > hardware database has been thwarted by a vast number of
> > less-than-knowledgable contributors and the incredibly low signal to
> > noise ratio that follows.
> >
> > --tim
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