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Ding Dong the Emeralds Back Compiz
As some of you may have read from my blog earlier, I was complaining about the “loss” of emerald without notification to the user community. However, during the 11th hour it seems as though David Reveman really pulled through.
You can check out the following bug to see Davids remarks:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431846
Which I’ll include here:
A compiz package fix that will allow emerald to work properly without any
changes has been submitted to X11:Compiz.
I also submitted a patch to the emerald package that will allow it to work with
remote desktops (nomad) or without the previously mentioned update to compiz.
If anyone has a working Compiz on 11.1 (from the installation source, or Factory) please test out emerald, and let me know if it is working for you. I have it working, but I am still using the packages in XGL, which do not include the NOMAD patch and wouldn’t be a correct representation since the NOMAD patch caused the emerald regression.
Many thanks to David R for taking the ball and running with it. Now we just have to find out if there will be a long term maintainer.
The sad state of emerald for compiz & its possible demise
As some of you may know, emerald is a very nice themer for compiz. However, recently a major patch was applied known as the “nomad” patch. The patch was applied on Tuesday Sept 16th and has ripped havoc for people who use Emerald.
So you’d imagine someone just needs to fix emerald. However, emerald is no longer maintained which means, unless someone really steps up it’ll just be a memory.
So what are the choices for openSUSE 11.1?
Remove compiz-emerald to keep the number of bug reports down
Find someone to maintain emerald (alot harder then just removing it)
Applying a home built hack patch to keep in 11.1 and gracefully remove from 11.2 with correct notification to the community.
Revert back to compiz pre-nomad patch (not sure about the regressoins of this).
I personally have reverted back to the “pre-nomad” version of 0.7.8 (you can modify the spec file, and just remove the patch2) .. and am keeping emerald (as I like having control of the size of my taskbar etc.. since I think all the KDE Decorations waste tons of desktop space.
Edit: Does anyone know the version of Compiz / Compiz Emerald on Ubuntu 8.10 and if it works? If it does, why can’t the patch there be used for openSUSE emerald? If they opted “not” to use the NOMAD patch, why do we “have” to? < Dunno why I just thought of that.
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