[Mageia-dev] update of compiz

Mon Jun 13 17:04:24 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Balcaen John at 13/06/11 14:39 did gyre and gimble:
+> Le lundi 13 juin 2011 09:49:57, Julien a écrit :
+> [...]
+>>
+>> (before continuing, keep in mind that I'm an apprentice since one week,
+>> so please forget me if I seem too presumptuous) 
+>>
+>> 0.9.x series is an unstable series with major modification
+>> between release and some tools (such as the decorator emerald) are not
+>> yet available.
+>>
+>> So I would prefer doing it in 2 steps :
+>>  - update current compiz to 0.8.8 (and if possible, backport it to
+>>    mageia 1) and importing emerald
+>>  - when 0.9.x series will be more stable, upgrade to 0.9
+>>
+>> WDYT ?
+> It's a good decision as expected from the compiz maintainer :)
+> 
+> Do we have any ETA regarding the 0.9 series ?
+
+Well, AFAIK, Unity in Ubuntu is based on the 0.9 series of compiz.... (I
+thought that was pretty much what it was written for?) So in that sense
+is *should* be fairly stable..... but that wasn't my expiernce when
+testing it, but I didn't spend too long on it.
+
+Col
+
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