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

[Dave Miner]

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.
> 

My experiences trying to run it on two different nVidia devices on 
several different builds weren't so encouraging - frequent black windows 
in evince and staroffice, other odd misbehaviors that I didn't catalog 
so closely.  To me, it needs time to settle.  Anyway, as Sanjay said, 
the door is closed for the first preview, we need to be stabilizing on 
what we've selected already.

Dave