Re: Is something wrong to XGL, Compiz, Cgwd be packaged?

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:50:13PM -0400, David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 02:30:19PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> > If we're going to ship xorg with aiglx and composite enabled by
> > default (actually i dunno really), beryl in etch and in default
> > desktop environment (just listed not enabled by default) would be a
> > huge win, maybe it's too late now. I would like to point out this
> > anyway.
> 
> AIGLX is enabled by default in etch already. Composite is not, although we
> could enable it. I don't know what the impact would be on kde users though,
> as I understand kwin has a compositing manager, although it might not be
> able to take advantage of the acceleration hooks like compiz and beryl do.
> Compiz should ship with etch, and turning on composite in xorg.conf is
> trivial, so I'm not too worried about having it off by default in this
> release. I don't really  understand your definition of "default desktop
> environment", so I can't comment on that...

It would be neat to have a debconf question for enabling composite.

Mike