[ILUG] XGL Compiz on Dapper

[Niall O Broin]

On 27 May 2006, at 00:57, Sonic wrote:

> Customers don't really know how things work, and they generally  
> don't want to. So if a system does the job, and you can through in  
> a few bells and whistles in the demonstration, then the chances are  
> they'll choose you over an alternative that does the same job. As  
> long as there isn't much of a difference in the prices of course.
>
> "Presentation is everything" as they say (or at least it's something).

Sadly, this is often all too true. But I don't know that a flashy  
desktop switch would count - depends what you're selling, I suppose.

> Anyway the moral of the story was, if you have the hardware to  
> support it, why not?

Well, my reasons are:

1) It appears to have buggered up the normal functioning of the KDE  
pager (though that could be something else, I suppose)

2) Apparently accelerated video doesn't work with Xgl (too many  
layers of abstraction, it seems) - though I have no doubt that will  
be fixed eventually.

3) For my usage, stability matters rather more than eye candy - the  
descriptions of how to set this up are littered with messages like  
"Watch out - this may cause testicualr cancer on Tuesdays" etc.

And last, but not least - my personal primary machine now is my  
notebook, which runs OS-X - I've already got the best eye candy there  
is, and it's solid as a rock :-)



Niall