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

[David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net>]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:27:47PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 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.

The translators would probably kill me, but that's an option for Etch. :-) 
For etch+1, I'm planning on making it enabled by default and doing away
with most of the debconf stuff anyway though.

 - David Nusinow