[FusionComm] The usual Beryl user..

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 17:54 -0400, Alyssa Hung wrote:
...
> Indeed. Workarounds like simple blur and a toggle-able option for wine 
> and other strange legacy-type windows, neither of which are likely to 
> become available in Compiz. There _are_ legitimate technical reasons for 
> why they should not be included in Compiz. But not every user has an 
> appreciation for such abstract, technical concerns. "Why break something 
> that works?" Would anyone like being told that it only worked because it 
> was broken in the first place

I don't see why neither of these things are unlikely to appear in
Compiz.  The "Workarounds" plugin is already in development, and does
the crazy wine legacy-fullscreen thing.  Someone could similarly write a
"simple blur" plugin, same as before.

The point is that these features don't really belong in core if they can
possibly be pushed out to plugins.  And if they can't, then you should
go on the Compiz ML and make a case to extend the system so that they
*can*.

One reason to break stuff that works is if, by breaking it, you make it
much easier to do cool stuff later.  This was (I believe) the main point
of returning to compiz-core.
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