KDE with compiz or beryl ? Compiz still needs many gnome dependencies?

Hi
I'm going to install new x86_64 arch on my laptop and wondering about installing compiz - I'm using KDE and I have question - does compiz still need so many gnome deps or it's better with this now ? For now on my x86 desktop I use beryl 0.2.1 and no problem here but in the future I'll have to change beryl to compiz so I need to know this gnome-deps thing... anyone uses KDE with compiz ?
Thanks in advance

Just install compiz-core and the kde decorator. It only requires gconf/gtk2.
FYI: KDE4 is introducing its own composting effects in KWin, so you won't be needing compiz/beryl if you use KDE in a few months

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THE SHORTER STORY
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(3) Wired Ethernet router providing Internet and Wi-Fi network access to three different devices - a Panasonic TV, LG Blu-Ray player and an Apple TV each use one of the three LAN ports on the back of the TC to gain access to the Internet.
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but these are only database level transactions. The J2EE app servers can handle global (and distributed) transactions involving different operations over different databases and transactions ruled by non-database software. Just imagine the complexity of handling a "rollback" of this kind. Put that in .NET pipe and try to smoke it.
J2EE EJB Entity Beans were the black sheep of the family. They were oriented to easily handle fine operations (i.e. update a specific record of information) but on the other hand present a poor performance in operations over large sets of data. You can do some optimizations but..... Now the story is a bit different with JavaEE 5 and the Java Persistence API -inspired on Hibernate-.
The bottom line is (as you mention in your post): J2EE/JavaEE are not needed by most of small or mid sized apps. However, I would strongly encourage you to have a look at the JavaEE 5 technology. The fact that portions of the JavaEE technology do not have a counterpart in .NET does not mean that they are not worth to (at least) have a look at them.
Best regards
Antonio

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