Sam Spilsbury (a.k.a smspillaz) announced yesterday that the much beloved Compiz is now very close to a 0.9 Beta in terms of functionality. About 80% of the Compiz 0.8 plugins have been ported in some form to Compiz++ although some plugins are currently broken in some way which makes them unusable. Some of the larger plugins have not yet been ported. As implied by the name, Compiz++ is no longer written in C, but its core has been recoded in C++. Rewriting Compiz in C++ allows for smart functions, easier and smarter private systems, easier initialization and clean-up, and there are numerous other advantages. Developers will be posting what they have been working on within the next few days. Here's a list of the work that still needs to be done:
Core:
Main:
Extra:
Pretty much everything else is almost done or has bugs, unless specified above. I have no idea what the Compiz roadmap looks like towards version 1.0, but let's hope it will be ready for Karmic+1 (Ubuntu 10.04). For now I'm very much looking forward to the next Compiz release.
Mh.. let's say GNOME 3 will make it into 10.4 - will mutter just replace metacity, or will it replace both metacity and compiz?
ReplyDeletethere's the same diversity as with gnome shell and notify-osd. =/ dont know, if it's too good, that the projects are working seperately still.
time will tell :) anyways: nice news
Bratwursler wrote: "Mh.. let's say GNOME 3 will make it into 10.4" -> I'm sure it won't ;-) 10.04 is LTS
ReplyDeleteBTW, nice copy and paste with the list of plugins ;-)
ReplyDeleteSlight update on this - The person working on the cube plugin will be back early sept to finish it off.
Also, we are looking at a core 0.9.0 release rather than a full release. There is just too much work to be done.
So, this is why we havent seen updates for so long? Theyre porting the program to C++
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