Compiz 0.9(-dev/-bzr) development/testing/general talk thread

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[EDIT]: I've altered the subject of this thread to reflect the course it has talken; it's now used for following up on compiz 0.9 issues, and attempting to report bugs upstream and support reports we can each reproduce.
[community] has, for long, had "compiz-core 0.8.x", since 0.9 was regarded as the "unstable" version when it was initially release.
For a long time now, the 0.9 has been stable.  Compiz is currently being shipped in-house at Cannonical (they actually hired the developer to work for them), and what they deem to be the stable version is the 0.9.x branch, and have shipped two mayor releases with it.
Although compiz.org states taht 0.9.x is the unstable branch, it also announces 0.9.5 as the latest release, while 0.9.7 as the latest, proving that this site is somewhat abandoned and out-of-date.
I'd like to propuse we move "compiz-*-dev" from the AUR (which it 0.9.7) into community and replace 0.8.8.  0.9.7 is deemed the stable branch by the developers (cannonical), and, after testing it myself, I conclude the same.
Here's a short list of pros and cons.  I'd very much like to see what everyone thinks about this, and, in particular, if there's any good technical reason not to do this.
Pros of 0.9.7:
- There are some more plugins available, which provide useful functionalities, such as GRID.
- Clicking on the border of the screen works as intended, the event is passed onto the window there present whenever appropriate. This is broken on 0.8.x.
- Suposedly, less resourse-intensive.
- Actual latest stable release, as is usual in Arch: bleeding edge.
Pros of 0.8.8
- Emerald support.
Cons of the migration:
- The configuration file is stored in a slightly different format, forcing users to reconfigure compiz.
Last edited by hobarrera (2012-04-26 17:38:38)

Answer 1

SanskritFritz wrote:
rufflove wrote:@Fritz: Are you still unable to get gtk-window-decorator working? I found time to test on a system without any Ubuntu patched packages and was fine. Animation bugs aside, I'm finding 0.9.7 to be very usable. Then again, I don't use many plugins. I wish Sam would just jettison all the exploding, wobbly cube bollocks!
I switched back to 0.8 after some hours of using 0.9. I crashed all over the place, was totally unusable for me.
I've only found that the previews in the static application switcher killed compiz (and, on a laptop, crashed the video drivers or something alike), but that's the only real bug I came across.
Awebb wrote:
pogeymanz wrote:It's the prettiest decorator on the market. Also by far the buggiest and crashiest.
I never had any issues with Emerald, but I rarely experience bugs and crashes where others tear their hair our.
It was reallly buggy in compiz 0.9, until it was finally dropped.  It works fine in 0.8.
triplesquarednine wrote:
rufflove wrote:@Fritz: Are you still unable to get gtk-window-decorator working? I found time to test on a system without any Ubuntu patched packages and was fine. Animation bugs aside, I'm finding 0.9.7 to be very usable. Then again, I don't use many plugins. I wish Sam would just jettison all the exploding, wobbly cube bollocks!
I don't use any Ubuntu-patched versions of software with Compiz, so i can verify that gtk-window-decorator works. The animation bugs, are currently the most annoying thing (which i am barely affected by, as i don't use many animations). I've disabled most for now. I think closing menus, open/close windows are the only animations that i use (in my case, i am using 'glide 2'). I do use desktop wall (yes, it works in master branch), but disable expo (which i need to file a bug report about, or add myself to a bug, if it's already filed). I also don't use things like wobbly windows (which works fine), nor do i use things like 3d-cude (haven't even tried it).
...anyways, I still want to encourage all of you to join launchpad and help the non-ubuntu distros report problems with 'Vanilla Compiz'. There are very few of us, reporting from other distros. Just make sure, that you check for similar reported bugs before reporting. If you find one, add yourself to the bug report, and specify that you aren't using Ubuntu.
cheerz
I have zero ubuntu packages; and it works perfectly fine.  I've yet to come across an animation bug though.
And yes, I agree, we need a non-ubuntu compiz test team, otherwise, it'll eventually not-work outside of ubuntu.  I've reported a few bugs, but they don't seem to get much attention though.