Notes from a GNOME 3 Mockup

Accuse me of blogspam and whatnot, but I saw this, it was really cool and I thought I just /had/ to share it with you.
Yes, I’m talking about that UI mockup on the front page of reddit today. Some of the stuff I saw there just made me think “Why isn’t some of the stuff [...]

Fedora

So I had a rather unfortunate event over the past two weeks. Upgraded my kernel – no matching kernel sources, boot up, dkms dies, fsck dies and my file system table gets trashed in the process. Fun.
/Thankfully/ I had just gotten around to installing rsync on my server and had run a few backups by [...]

Strange how something so far away

Can come so close to home.
I should probably take my books home – at this rate I will soon be quarantined.

Bzzt! Update!

Kazzap!
Activity!
Woo!
Compiz Related Stuff:
Elements(++/0.9):
[DEBUG] * Plugin ‘elements’ successfully loaded!
init function called
PrivateElementScreen  constructor call!

Sam@XPS-SUSE:~/.compiz/options> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/compiz/lib/pkgconfig pkg-config –modversion compiz
# 0.9.0
I’m quite glad to say that compiz isn’t dead! Far from it! One of my bigger plugins, elements, has finally been ported, after sorting through about 500 unique compile errors in the past week. Unfortunately, while it is ported [...]

Misinformation and miscommunication

A while back I said a few (looking back on it, rather harsh) words about gnome-shell. I’ve probably miscommunicated what I was trying to say with regards to that situation.
First of all, such comments are (roughly) my own opinion and my stance has changed to be a bit more neutral since then – of course [...]

CCSM

“I think the Compiz guys and girls need to work hard on making ccsm more accessible, in such a way that it doesn’t require a degree in physics and geometry to figure out how it works.” -OSNews
In terms of CCSM, such a comment has always troubled me. Apart from graphical glitches and ‘pointless bling’, CCSM [...]

Compiz 0.9.x – Where are we now, and where to from here

Hi everyone.
Hope you didn’t mind my obnoxious April Fools joke yesterday, it was just an idea myself and racarr threw around in IRC :p.
Anyways, this post is about Compiz 0.9.x (formerly ‘compiz++’). Compiz 0.9.x started in december when onestone announced his core rewrite on the mailing list. It had features like pluggable output backends, written [...]

Drop Everything

At Compiz, we have a very important announcement to make:
Forget MPXIR
Forget Compiz++
Forget NOMAD
Forget every other thing we have been working on.
Something better has been in the works for a long time. Something you would never notice unless you were a dev yourself. Something will see the light of day once again for 2 years. Ladies [...]

Upcoming Forum Reorganisation

If you haven’t seen the announcement on the forum already, you should probably be aware that the support and web teams will be carrying out a forum rework on March 2nd 0200 GMT. The main reasons for this were the fact that current forum structure doesn’t fit well with our user base and doesn’t promote [...]

Input Redirection, MPX and NOMAD

So considering that compiz++ is now master and my patches haven’t been maintained in a while, a lot of you might be wondering what is going on with input redirection and MPX. Was that effort wasted? Is it made obsolete by com[iz++? Is it still doable? When is it coming? Etc.
To be perfectly honest, they [...]