[Compcomm] The Next Step

[Will Farrington]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 19:34 -0500, Matthew Swaringen wrote:
> Well, developer fighting may be fun, but as a user I have quite a few 
> features outside of the cube zoom that I preferred in beryl.  I 
> preferred the stability in compiz for the most part, but I still used 
> beryl because of the following.
> Emerald

Works with Compiz GIT and should have a "Stable" release when Compiz
0.5.2 is out, hopefully.

> Cube Zoom

I'm not sure if this is going into core, but I think it is at least one
of the few options that ought to.

> A decently fast resize plugin (because of the stretch/outline options)

Resizing is very improved (even without those options) in 0.5 such that
my old ATI card can resize smoothly now. =D

> An unsupported tiling plugin (this is a needed feature that should be 
> supported IMO)

I agree that tiling is pretty essential to window management and a core
plugin probably should be created (ideally, maybe even use Scale's
algorithm and to lay out windows such that they're not necessarily
maximized to take up the most real estate possible? I don't know).

> I think the vidcap plugin is also for beryl originally isn't it?  (not 
> that there aren't other ways to capture but it's a very easy one to use).

I'm not sure as I never used that feature.

> I also much prefer the beryl-settings manager.

The need for a settings manager is getting some good discussion in the
forum. I don't have the link on hand at the moment, but you ought to be
able to find the thread pretty easily. =)