[Compcomm] A funny situation

[Adam Kirchhoff]

On Monday 18 June 2007 08:15:18 RYX wrote:
> Imagine this "funny" situation:
>
> A friend visits me and says: "Oh you have a nice desktop there and such
> cool transparent windows. What is it that creates such nice compositing
> effects and transparency?". I answer him: "It's called compiz - it is a
> window manager for Linux.". He says: "Now that's cool - where can I get
> it? At compiz.org?". I say: "No, it is hosted at opencomositing.org.".
> He seems surprised and asks: "So I can go to opencompositing.org and
> just download that compiz window manager?". I answer him: "No, you have
> too download something called compcomm, but only until it has a new
> name.".
>
> He is even more surprised and asks: "But why can't I just go to
> compiz.org and download that compiz window manager and all those nice
> effects and plugins and addons?".
>
> I answer him: "No, believe me. It is much easier to go to
> opencompositing.org and download that compcomm. Only if you want to have
> info about or support for compiz, then you have to go to compiz.org".
> He says: "Ahh I see ...", while walks away confused and irritated.
> Straightly back to his windows PC.
>

It seems to me that you should be telling this friend to install a user 
friendly distribution of linux, which has it's own properly packaged version 
of compiz, plugins, and addons.  Then, if they have any problems that their 
distribution forums can't solve, to visit the forums at opencompositing.org 
(or compiz.org, whichever one actually wins this pissing contest between 
everyone).

Adam