| Stephen Gran on 4 Dec 2007 00:44:24 -0000 |
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:18:25PM -0500, Matthew Rosewarne said: > > It seems Novell (who created Compiz and the awful XGL in total > secrecy) may not have anything better to spend their time on, Yes, compiz is a terrible window manager. Just remember, it's just a window manager. All the actual work is done by the xorg backend, and would be trivial to introduce to a real WM. compiz started life as a sort of proof of concept, and then people thought it would be a good idea to try and actually use it day to day. Clearly that was a mistake. > but at least Red Hat seems to be doing useful work with efforts such > as PolicyKit, PackageKit, and NetworkManager. Not trying to be argumentative, but have you actually looked at the code for these things redhat pushes? pm-utils is still mostly a joke, network manager can barely manage to blow it's nose without wetting the bed, and so on. Not trying to be massively cynical, but I think I'll still take community supported code over corporate self indulgence any day. And I would really love to see people get back to thinking about real architecture issues, instead of just tacking a gui on top of a poorly thought out subsystem (yes, network manager, I'm looking at you). Back to your regularly scheduled rant. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | UNIX is many things to many people, but | | steve@lobefin.net | it's never been everything to anybody. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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