Fedora Core 7 - Compiz vs Beryl
Trever L. Adams
tadams-lists at myrealbox.com
Fri Jan 5 04:20:24 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 09:36 +0900, Naoki wrote:
> Compiz is the upstream original, Beryl is a fork.
>
> Compiz uses gconf which is pretty standard and works well with gnome
> obviously, Beryl uses flat file.
>
> Beryl has (had?) some additional plugins, but plugins are being written
> for compiz all the time as well, look at compiz-extras.
>
> Beryl has a theme manager, compiz uses cairo, metacity, or KDE themes.
>
> They look the same to me but Compiz just seems to be the better
> integrated of the two.
And as of the last version, compiz had a horrid configuration (read
almost none) for the different plugins, etc.
That needs to be fixed. I like the GREAT configurability of Beryl.
Trever
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