[FusionComm] The usual Beryl user..

[Sam Spilsbury]

On 7/20/07, jug <frustbox at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/20/07, mega lex <megalexis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > As a usual Beryl user I am wondering what happened to beryl. Why was it
> > killed? If its not dead why hasn't there been a new release?
>
> Beryl wasn't really "killed". It is currently being merged with compiz,
> because the developers decided that its wasted effort and work to maintain
> compiz and beryl. And as you know beryl was basically just a modified compiz
> with some more plugins.
>

Beryl core was about 3x bigger afaik.


Actually I know that it merged but many of my friends that got into linux
> > just because they loved beryl are asking me the same thing.
>
> Try Compiz Fusion, it's even better. Alsthough there is no stable release
> yet.
>

Mh.. you might find that you will have different problems with compiz-core
than beryl core. I do know for sure that certain applications might behave
strangely / cause compiz to crash but thats because beryl-core was full of
hacks to make it work with XYZ application.

To tell you the truth, Compiz Fusion has been ready for a release for quite
some time, but there are things like artwork and website stuff standing in
the way.


I feel kind of sad that after many maany months there is no compiz-fusion
> > site up and running or at least a good place where users can find and
> > download the latest.
>
> Since there is no stable release yet, there is nothing (official) for
> downloading available. Although there are some repositories for various
> distributions and you can use git to get the source and compile it yourself.
> But if you don't want to use unstable stuff you should stay with beryl and
> wayt for the release of compiz fusion.
> As far as I know the website is currently being worked on. As temporary
> forum there is http://www.opencompositing.org
>


Repos :

Heree, you can find a git script which will get you ... compiz-fusion stuff.

git clone git://git.opencompositing.org/users/kristian/compiz-scripts

This will fetch the plugins
git clone git://git.opencompositing.org/fusion/misc/yags

I thought the reason for the merger was to have a better product, but whats
> > the point if in the process you end up loosing your user base and make linux
> > to the typical user look as an unstable environment where anything can
> > happen to really good projects at any time. I think beryl had alot of steam
> > and backing behind it and it seems that it has just grinded to a halt. Even
> > if there is progress being done.. the users are not seeing it because there
> > is no place they can see or hear whats going on. Just put a site up that
> > doesn't look pretty for now ant says the status and maybe a some howtos,
> > links to repositories, and announcements of whats going on.1
>
> You must be blind. Sorry. There are annoucements on beryl-project.orgdirecting to the temporary home at opencompositing.org
> . And there always was compiz.org around, where you can also find some
> useful information on compiz (fusion).
>

Unfortunately, there is nothing on the compiz.org front page saying that
compiz fusion exists.  We need to beg them to put a notice up or something
(RYX is the owner, and he apparatly quit, sooo...)

Yes you are correct, shutting down the beryl-forums was maybe too quick, but
> now it's too late to lament... Lets just hope the new website is ready soon.
>
>
> ~jug
>
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