Status of compiz(-fusion) for KDE

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 26 17:16:10 UTC 2007


dragoran wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm not planning to make the compiz rpm obsolete the beryl rpm, but
>>> upstream, the two projects have merged and I don't expect the fedora
>>> beryl rpms to see much activitiy.
>>
>> Is there a reason not to obsolete beryl?
> because they do not conflict with eachother so there is no reason to do 
> it (beryl uses %{_libdir}/berly for its plugins and also use berly as 
> binary etc. so there are no file conflicts) ... you can install beryl 
> and use beryl-manager sto switch between beryl, compiz(-fusion), kwin 
> and metacity.

They don't have to conflict with each other. Beryl upstream has renamed 
and morphed into Compiz Fusion. Isn't that a good reason?

Rahul




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