[FusionComm] Compiz Fusion Release 0.5.2 is out!

[Gavin Langdon]

Congratulations!!! Sadly I won't be able to do a fusioncast about it ;) ...
On vacation.

Good job folks!

--gavintlgold


On 8/13/07, Compiz Fusion Team <team at compiz-fusion.org> wrote:
>
> This is the first development release of Compiz Fusion, the result of more
> than six months of work and polish.  The first stable release, 0.6.0, will
> follow after the Compiz 0.6.0 release.
>
> Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the Compiz community plugin
> set "Compiz Extras" and the parts of the Beryl project that are
> independent
> of the window manager core.  The two communities have re-united to create
> a
> user experience for Linux that rivals anything available on other
> platforms.
>
> The merge between Compiz and Beryl, combined with the continuing increase
> in
> stability, reliability, and usability both in Compiz, Compiz Fusion and
> the
> surrounding software environment (better driver support and so on), means
> Compiz Fusion will be included in many more distributions.  Compiz and
> Compiz
> Fusion will be enabled by default in some of them, making Compiz usage
> easier
> for everyone.
>
> The Compiz Fusion 0.5.2 tarballs are available at
> http://releases.compiz-fusion.org/0.5.2/ . You can verify these tarballs
> using the sha1sums in
> http://releases.compiz-fusion.org/0.5.2/compiz-fusion-0.5.2.sha1 , which
> are
> signed by Compiz Fusion Release Team GPG key (C2B8F46E) at
> http://releases.compiz-fusion.org/0.5.2/compiz-fusion-0.5.2.sha1.asc . The
> matching Compiz Core tarball is available in the compiz/ subdirectory.
>
> This release includes:
>
> Compiz Plugin sets (Plugins are split into three packages according to
> their
> usefulness and stability.):
>
> compiz-fusion-plugins-main:
>        Animation: Animations for window open, close, minimize/restore,
> focus and
> shade events.
>        Colourfilter: Provides various filters to improve accessibility to
> vision
> impaired users.
>        Expo: Displays all viewports and allows the movement of a window
> from one
> viewport to another.
>        Enhanced Zoom (ezoom): Improved version of the Zoom plugin,
> featuring
> interaction with windows while zooming, plus several accessibility
> improvements such as focus tracking.
>        Jpeg: Adds jpeg images support to Compiz.
>        Neg: Shows negatives of windows.
>        Opacify: Reduce opacity of windows overlapping the window currently
> hovered
> over by the mouse pointer.
>        Put: Adds bindings to move windows to several positions.
>        Resizeinfo: Provides a small information window about the window
> dimensions
> during window resize.
>        Ring: An alternative application switcher plugin that arranges all
> windows in
> a ring.
>        Scaleaddon: Improves Compiz Scale plugin by displaying hovered
> windows titles
> or highlighting the currently selected window.
>        Shift: An alternative application switcher plugin that provides a
> 3D view of
> the switching process.
>        Snap: Adds snapping during window movement if the wobbly plugin is
> disabled.
>        Text: Offers pango-cairo based text rendering for different
> plugins.
>        Thumbnail: Shows a small thumbnail of a window if the mouse is over
> its entry
> in the taskbar.
>        Vpswitch: Uses mouse actions performed on the background to change
> the
> current viewport.
>        Wall: Arranges all viewports as a wall and features visual sliding
> between
> viewports as well as a preview window during switching.
>        Winrules: Enables setting of window properties by matching them by
> name,
> type, or other criteria.
>        Workarounds: Features several workarounds to improve behavior of
> legacy
> applications and such.
>
> compiz-fusion-plugins-extra:
>        Addhelper: Darkens unfocused windows so the user can concentrate on
> the
> focused window.
>        Bench: Displays the current frames per second as a simple
> benchmark.
>        Crashhandler: Creates a backtrace of a compiz crash and is able to
> start an
> alternative window manager.
>        Cubecaps: Displays top and bottom caps on Compiz Cube.
>        Cubereflex: Adds a reflective ground to the Compiz Cube plugin.
>        ExtraWM: Adds additional window manager actions to Compiz.
>        Fadedesktop: Fades windows out to display the desktop background.
>        Firepaint: Draw with fire on the screen.
>        Gears: Renders the famous "glxgears" gears inside of the
> transparent cube.
>        Goto-Viewport: Switches to a given viewport by pressing a
> keybinding and the
> viewport number.
>        Group: Enables the grouping of windows to resize and move them, and
> the
> tabbing of several windows together.
>        Motion blur (mblur): Creates a motion blur for different screen
> animations.
>        Reflex: Draws a reflection behind transparent areas of a window.
>        Scalefilter: Provides a way to filter and select windows by title
> while using
> the Compiz Scale plugin.
>        Showdesktop: Slides all windows toward the edges of the screen to
> expose the
> desktop.
>        Splash: Displays a simple animated splash image.
>        Trailfocus: Gradually dims windows as other windows gain focus.
>        Widget: Features a widget layer similar to OS X Dashboard.
>
> compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported:
>        Fakeargb: Makes a special color of a window transparent.
>        Mswitch: Enables the switching of viewports with mouse gestures.
>        Snow: Displays falling snow over the desktop and windows.
>        Tile: Enables the tiling of windows on the desktop in a manner
> similar to
> ion3.
>
> BCOP:
>
> compiz-bcop: BCOP is a code generator that provides an easy way to handle
> plugin options by generating parts of the plugin code directly from the
> xml
> metadata file.  It is used for most of the Compiz Fusion plugins.
>
> Window decorator:
>
> emerald: An alternative themeable window decorator.
>
> emerald-themes: Different themes for emerald.
>
> A brand new Compiz configuration system:
>
> libcompizconfig: Libcompizconfig is an alternative configuration system
> for
> compiz and provides the following features:
>        - Automatic plugin list generation.
>        - Import/Export of the current configuration.
>        - Configuration profiles.
>        - Parsing of Compiz metadata files to provide an easy to use API
> for
> configuration managers.
>        - Conflict handling for plugins and actions.
>        - Support for different configuration storage backends.
>        - Desktop environment integration.  If a backend provides desktop
> environment integration, then Compiz will share the keybindings and
> settings
> with the default desktop environment window manager like metacity or kwin.
>        - Its own Compiz configuration plugin "ccp" to provide all features
> of
> libcompizconfig with compiz.
>
> compizconfig-backend-kconfig: The kconfig backend for CompizConfig. It
> uses
> the KDE configuration system to store the compiz configuration and
> provides
> integration into the KDE desktop environment.
>
> compizconfig-backend-gconf: The gconf backend for CompizConfig.  It uses
> the
> Gnome configuration system and provides integration into the Gnome desktop
> environment.
>
> compizconfig-python: Python bindings for the compizconfig library.
>
> compizconfig-settings-manager(ccsm): A fully featured Python/GTK based
> settings manager for the CompizConfig system.
>
> We'd like to thank everyone who contributed their time and skills to our
> project.  Compiz Fusion was made possible by our dedicated developers,
> administrators, translators, and testers.  These individuals gave their
> time
> freely to a project they believed in, and we are all grateful for their
> efforts.
>
> We hope you will enjoy using Compiz Fusion as much as we enjoyed writing
> it!
>
> - The Compiz Fusion Team.
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