Colin Guthrie wrote:
Kristian Lyngstøl wrote:
I think it's appropriate to extend the existing manager-program(s) so
they also do the system checks Beryl currently does in core. This will
keep compiz-core clean, and present users with a single tool to start
things up, without having to know what options to use.
It's a fact that the system checks in beryl, combined with the
integrated settings, makes starting it up beryl a lot easier than
compiz. However, I agree that these things shouldn't have to be in
compiz, but there's no reason not to have them in an other application
all together.
I'll be honest and say that I don't like beryl-manager. I never use it.
I've made sure my distro is capable of loading the user's window manager
of choice correctly without the need for the manager.
To me starting kwin or metacity etc. and then killing them and replacing
them with compiz/beryl just seems a little hacky.
In Mandriva we've made sure that our X startup process can check system
and or user preferences as to what Window manager etc. they want.
Now I concede that hacks such as __GL_YEILD and the --use-copy etc. are
not handled here (they can be configured manually however), so some sort
of auto-selection stuff is handy. However, I would have thought that
these should go in wrapper scripts rather than a compiled GUI
application as they could then be used in more places - e.g. in X
startup scripts.
I think this is the best idea all round, if there is a generic start script
it can be used in any situation.
My idea was that there could be 2 scripts involved.
1. There would be a very basic start script which just reads ~/.compizrc
and starts compiz with those options and hacks.
2. If this file is not found, a separate script could be run who's only
job is
to attempt to guess a good config file and write it out.
This way detection does not need to be done at each startup and
problems can be permanently fixed by updating .compizrc.
This file could also store the initial plugins so that different users
could
start with different plugins.
I think something like this should be included in the distribution so
that it is much more standard. At the moment everyone has their own
startup scripts.
What do you think?, I think the run script can be done very easily and
the detection script can be worked out over time. People will have to
manually set ~/.compizrc initially, but that should not be too hard.
_______________________________________________
compiz mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
