Hey fellow debian lovers. I think it's time to re-empower some users, who like fancyness in their desktop, with compiz! Compiz also addresses a matter of accessibility, with its integration of many visual adaptation features, so it would be a significant addition to our impaired users. A couple new a11y features have also been pushed to upstream, hoping they take it into consideration. BTW, I rather concentrate on the Mate desktop, and plan on releasing an accessibility enabling package lot, called mate-accessibility (see http://git.hypra.fr/hypra/mate-accessibility), to facilitate several configuration profiles for different impairments. The first step is getting compiz back in debian. It has been cleaned up, and polished with the last version of upstream. I have followed the previous advice of Adam Borowski, and set the jpeg and png deps strait. there is the question of the source format, should it be 3(native) or quilted? Another issue, that is pending resolve, is a couple lintian errors: compiz-dev: package-contains-cmake-private-file usr/share/cmake-3.0/FindCompiz.cmake compiz-dev: package-contains-cmake-private-file usr/share/cmake-3.0/FindOpenGLES2.cmake Are those critical? or is it ok till resolution? As for functionnal tests, compiz is used by ~20 people, and is ready from sid to jessie-backports. I await more instructions and pieces of sound advice, of which i know debian people have plenty. project is uploaded to alioth: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/compiz/ git clone git+ssh://$USER@git.debian.org/git/pkg-a11y/compiz.git To check out built packages, and the mate-accessibility pkgs: http://debian.hypra.fr/debian/import_key (i suggest sid) till then, happy hacking -- Ksamak
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