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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay so here's what I like:

We're going to have to switch WM's anyways next cycle. We get to do
basically whatever custom animations we want. We get to have anti-aliased
window borders.

What I don't like:

This is more new stuff to change which means continually delaying Luna
again and again. Tom already has very important projects to work on for
Luna. He's going to burn out and/or not finish any of these projects like
we've seen before when developers try to take on multiple projects. So is
this even feasible to deliver this cycle? I'm very skeptical.

But I guarantee it won't be "equal in complexity" to deploying Compiz.
Compiz is already deployed. We can just follow upstream's implementation
for this cycle and it's done.

What I would like to see is some prioritization. Let's concentrate on all
the items we *already have* in order to get Luna out. And once we've
knocked those out, then let's think about a last minute window manager
switch.

Otherwise, continuing on this route, we're on track for a Winter release of
Luna (or maybe Spring?) rather than a summer release.

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <
sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Our R&D department in the person of Tom Beckmann has found a way to
> get custom animations into Mutter. Here's the demo:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLNVa0y0ky0
>
> Here's the code, under 100 lines: http://pastebin.com/gLhMx7m2
> And people are already playing with it: http://ompldr.org/vZHRuZQ
>
> I strongly support this approach because it seems to be the only way
> to get decent compositing that has decent performance and doesn't make
> opening Slingshot an "I'll never do this again" experience.
>
> This looks roughly equal in complexity to deploying Compiz properly,
> except workspace handling which is questionable. This needs input from
> designers now.
>
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> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
> OS integrator @ elementary
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Best Regards,

Daniel Foré

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