BREAKING: compiz++ branch hits git

Dennis “onestone” Kasprzyk has done it again!
Ladies and Gentlemen what you are seeing here may well be the future of compiz as we know it, in a new compiz branch called compiz++ which allows for really neat things like:
- Running compiz without any opengl/composite, just like a normal WM
- Possibly an XRender backend and or [...]

They say when you start something….

…. You have to finish it.
I’ve implemented a sort of Mac OS X ’sheets’ animation in the simple-animations plugin. It is designed to work with dialog boxes so that they appear to ‘roll out’ of the top of the window. The animation is there, I just haven’t got parent window detection to work with dialogs [...]

Compiz Fusion Community News, December 20th, 2008: Animations and Elements

In this edition of the Compiz Fusion Community News:

Elements-extendable complete
New animations from animationsplus
Work started on simple-animations
Squeeze plugin by kristian-erikson
Compiz API python bindings by kristia- erikson
Mac OS X Style viewport switching in wall

News in Bugs:

Freewins not working on transparent cube bug fixed, the window reset code was removed, instead rotated windows are skewed in order to [...]

Extendible-Elements extensions.

For those of you who want to check out the extension system of elements-extendible, here are some extension plugins for you to try.
Bouncing Balls A.K.A Boing
Roaches
Both plugins were made by mdot earlier this year and make use of the texture animation system I recently implemented. In order to use this, create multiple copies of the [...]

RIP Lachlan

Recently, I attended a funeral of a boy who goes to my school and was tragically killed in a motorbike accident after school finished.
Rest in Peace Lockie. You were such a broad-lived soul who was always willing to give everything a go. You performed with me in various drama productions and were an enthusiastic and [...]

Elements

I’m not dead!
Elements-Extendable (my take on elements) is almost finished. If you haven’t checked out git already (git clone git://git.compiz-fusion.org/users/smspillaz/elements-extendible), here is what is implemented in the plugin:

Multi-List with groups, have any configuration of element movement patterns and toggle them independently and actions to cycle through the list
Modularzed design, a lot of code reduction, should [...]

News

Hey all,
Thought I might offer a quick update of what I’ve been doing around here recently.
First thing, I’m re-writing elements, one of the main reasons was that although it was a nice idea of bringing all the element-like plugins together, it wasn’t really all that flexible, and the code regarding element movement was very tightly [...]