David Reveman wrote: > I haven't looked at the csm plugin. What configuration system is it > using? Is it a new configuration system? In that case I'm curious to > know why someone felt like there was a need to invent a new one. > > We can have 20 configuration plugins as far as I care. However, I'm not > sure which ones should be hosted in the compiz repository on > freedesktop.org. > > There's no gconf dependency. The only thing that depends on gconf is the > gconf plugin. I don't see why there should be a desire to drop it, gconf > is the current configuration system for the gnome platform and if you > want to have compiz integrate properly that's what you would want to > use.
It is a very simple configuration plugin that does not use gconf and just uses a settings file in a users home directory and system wide defaults. It was created specifically to drop the gconf dependancy as this was a PITA for the many, many people who wanted to run compiz but didn't run know (e.g. KDE users). It was also able to generate enough meta information to create a stand-alone configuration editor (/usr/bin/csm) to allow people edit things nicely without the need to play with the raw settings (cf gconf-editor). All of this is now going to be called beryl-settings. It may be worth considering. Feedback from users of my packages on Mandriva prefer the usability of the csm conf backend and the csm editor application over gconf/gset-compiz/gconf-editor. If there was a nice interface to edit the gconf settings, it wouldn't really matter. Hopefully the info is of use. I'm not arguing for or against, just hopefully saving you some time - it would be a shame if you waste time on this where you could be better employed doing the proper core stuff :) All the best Col. _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
