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RE: Widgets
by jadeshade on Tue 11th Sep 2007 21:09 UTC in reply to "Widgets"
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to tell the truth, the widgets don't have anything to do with compiz. It has a 'widget layer' plugin which just provides the dashboard-esque effect of making widgets appears on screen, but you can use it for whatever you want (I'm using it with superkaramba). The fact that he compares compiz fusion to kde is really pretty annoying, especially considering that the widget layer plugin was from before the remerge. Also, what he said about how the teams reformed is incorrect - devs from both teams are working on plugins, the beryl core was scrapped, and some beryl coders are trying to figure out the 'right' way to do some of the core changes this time around. This means a more stable, less hackish 3d environment, but there are some features beryl had that compiz yet lacks, like temp unminimization/ having textures of unmapped windows.

So smitty, it's works out that you're correct. It's not that I'm not appreciative of lunapark's article, it's just that after all the drama that went into this, that he'd at least get some of the facts right.

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