[indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] Compiz-fusion in Indiana

[Ian Murdock]

Anil Gulecha wrote:
> On 10/22/07, David.Comay at sun.com <David.Comay at sun.com> wrote:
>>> We discussed this at the summit, and everyone was orally for including
>>> compiz on the Indiana release (but having it turned off by default).
>>> Is this still the plan?
>> It sounded like Compiz isn't quite ready (particularly given the
>> limited device support) for integration into the Live CD at the
>> moment.  However, I would expect it to be made available through a
>> network repository in the near term.
>>
> 
> Stability wise, it's stable enough for the Ubuntu guys to leave it on
> by default in Gutsy. And device wise, both INtel and Nvidia are
> covered (with ATI coming in soon). That leaves a large part of the
> audience covered. It makes sense to include it in the first release as
> it's not more than 5 mb big (from erwann's packages) and adds a lot of
> eye candy that users love to see.

I would tend to agree.. As long as it's not enabled by default and fails
gracefully if the required hardware support isn't there, what's the harm
in including it?

-ian
-- 
Ian Murdock
http://ianmurdock.com/

"Don't look back--something might be gaining on you." --Satchel Paige