[Compcomm] A funny situation

[RYX]

I would have really prefered if more people would answer on my more
serious mail. :)

Am Montag, den 18.06.2007, 14:54 +0200 schrieb Franz Rogar:
> 2007/6/18, RYX <ryx at ryxperience.com>:
> > Imagine this "funny" situation:
> >
> 
> Imagine this other "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: "This is my compositing window manager. It's an open
> source project ;) You can take a look at opencompositing.org. What
> you're seeing is Compiz (the core) and some plugins made by the
> community called CompComm. Also, in the web page, you can find other
> interesting open source compositing applications as kiba-doc and
> screenlets."
I bet your friend didn't understand anything of what you say, except all
your friends are computer-freaks (which does not really represent the
average end-user). Even the term "window manager" will confuse most
non-Linux users - especially in non-english speaking countries.

> Note: I'm sure that a my friend doesn't know anything about
> compositing, if not he/she will know about Compiz, L3G, Metisse etc...
He will also not know what open-source is - because he is not interested
in all that. He only sees a nice "Windows" that looks better than his
one. I assume this is one of my friends who don't know much about
computers.

> 
> > He says: "Now that's cool - where can I get
> > it? At compiz.org?".
> 
> As I stayed clearly that they're "open source compositing"
> applications, he/she will look for them at "opencompositing.org". So,
> he/she will not ask that.
You missed the point of my other mail. Everyone is free to create his
own community - but he shouldn't abuse this re-unification for it. The
whole oc.org-thing extremely breaks its original purpose.

> > He seems surprised and asks: "So I can go to opencompositing.org and
> > just download that compiz window manager?".
> 
> I answer hime: "Yes, but you'll get only the basic interface. As I
> stayed previosly, you can download the community plugins called
> CompComm".
Now there goes the user-friendliness and I have to help and install him
all the extra-stuff from all other locations because he doesn't want to
read a book only to be able to use his computer in a more "enhancing"
way. :D

> >
> > 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?".
> >
> 
> He/she will not ask this, unless he/she is idiot 'cause I've stated
> that "it's opensource".
Badly spoken most end-users are idiots if you want to see it like that
(I don't mean this offensive against anyone). That's why we do what we
do, right? Simplifying things and helping users.

> I add: "You can take support on opencompositing.org for both compiz
> and compcomm. Info about those proyects can be found also in
> opencompositing.org and, for more concrete info about Compiz, you can
> see "compiz.info" (not compiz.org)
You don't find that confusing?

> > He says: "Ahh I see ...", while walks away confused and irritated.
> > Straightly back to his windows PC.
> >
> 
> Are you thinking my friend is subnormal?
Most windows users appear subnormal to me from time to time - but that's
the way it is. Bad information leads to bad behavior. ;)

> 
> > This is what you all aim at.
> >
> 
> Don't get wrong: you must give accurate and structured info to friends
> if you want they stay with you.
I don't think it is accurate to confuse them and in the end do it myself
and they don't even know what the name of that "bling" on their desktop
is. They'll think it is "just Ubuntu - something like Windows" ...

> 
> > Rico
> >
> 
> I think you still see the bottle middle-empty of water instead of middle-full.
I see things realistic. Realism often seems pessimistic beause in
reality there are obstacles and disadvantages which shouldn't get
ignored. I am an optimist, otherwise I would have given up long ago.

:)
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