Erwann Chenede wrote:
> Hi Rainer,
>
> Rainer Orth wrote:
>> John Fischer <John.Fischer at sun.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>> ~./compiz/plugins Uncommitted Contains all user installed
>>> plugins
>>> ~./compiz/images Uncommitted Contains all images using by
>>> user installed plugins
>>>
>> Is it really necessary to clutter home directories like this. I'd really
>> prefer that this goes into ~/.compiz instead (assuming that this is
>> ~/compiz as in John's summary).
>>
> Actually it's a consistent typo in the ARC document. it's indeed
> ($HOME)/.compiz.
> I will remove this feature anyway as this feature could be problematic
> for multiplatform environment. (see my reply to Danek's email
> for details).
I don't think it should be removed instead a simple extension to have it
look in ~/.compiz/plugins/`uname -p`/ before ~/.compiz/plugins/
That is probably about the same amount of code change (maybe less) than
removing the functionality.
Note that the whole Mozilla suite of programs suffers from this same
problem, but they at least have an environment variable that users can
set to use for finding plugins, eg:
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/lib/sparc/mozilla/plugins/
If compiz has a similar environment variable for plugins then that for
me would be sufficient.
Disabling plugins completely is for me worse than not being able to
support a directory structure containing multiple architectures.
--
Darren J Moffat
