Re: Debian default desktop environment
On 08/04/2014 20:35, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
>> Remember all the hype that arose when Beryl was announced, with
>> per-window transparency settings, the rotating cube, wobbly windows,
>> and all that. It was flashy, and I do think it made some heads turn to
>> Linux, previously perceived as plainly fugly.
>>
>> Beryl and its ideas came and went. Yes, some ideas stuck and became
>> useful. But I'm very glad that did not become the standard for desktop
>> interaction.
>
> It was the standard -- for a while -- and for that while it was the
> golden years of the Linux desktop (in my mind)
>
> We had features no one else did, people were pushing the bounds of what
> we thought were posible and having a great time doing it. Yeah, a lot of
> it was silly, but a lot of really good stuff came out of it that I can't
> get these days.
>
> After the KDE4 and GNOME3 rewrites (which are hugely important and vital
> to our success) I don't mind Compiz died, but for a *long* time this was
> the standard, and it was the most advanced window manager.
>
> Someone remind me; is Unity still a Compiz plugin, or did that die too?
Unity 7 (as used up until Ubuntu 14.04) still uses Compiz, Unity 8 uses
Qt's compositing for all its fanciness.
-Jonathan
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