On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 13:07 +1200, Derek Smithies wrote: > On 07/06/12 17:54, Adrian Mageanu wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 17:55 +1200, Derek Smithies wrote: > > [...] > >> Summary: > >> a fresh install of 12.04 was worth the hassle. I like it. > > How is Compiz fairing on 12.04? > > > > Sadly on Fedora17 - what I'm using now - it has been orphaned. > > > > But I see it included in precise:universe:updates > > > > http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/precise/universe/updates/compiz > > > > and there is some activity on launchpad.net > > > > https://launchpad.net/compiz > > > > Did you try it? How buggy is it? > > > > Adrian > After the upgrade to 11.10 (from 11.04 to 11.10) the skype icon in the > top panel was near useless. It did not display a > red circle to indicate I had missed an incoming call. which meant I had > to periodically check the skype window for activity. > The box was then upgraded to 12.04 - and I was hoping that skype would > "come right". It didn't. After the fresh install of > 12.04, the skype status icon in the top bar behaves correctly. > > After the upgrade to 12.04, where the box went from 11.10 to 12.04, the > window experience was horrible. The vertical > bar on the left did not display correctly - it would sometimes "hide > itself", but leave a solid thick white bar behind. The > white bar was the same width as before the hide event. The area where > the bar on the left was - could not be used. > This pushed me over the edge, and I did the fresh install. Post fresh > install, I have seen nothing untoward. All window > behaviour appears normal... > > I note from wikipedia that compiz fusion is the default in Ubuntu, and > I did stick with the default - much easier that > way - so yes - I am using compiz. > > I hope this answers your question.. > > Cheers, > Derek. > Thank you Derek, you not only answered my question, but you made several good selling points for Ubuntu 12.04, I think I'm going to make the switch to it next weekend.
My desktop experience with Fedora so far is approaching satisfactory only, with Gtk themes not working properly in Gnome, Cinnamon still having bugs I see on their website as being fixed, and the rest of Gnome themes that are still working designed by some aesthetically challenged artists with little sense of colour and contrast. And did I mention no Compiz?... Cheers, Adrian _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
