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Compiz Project Releases C++ Based v0.9.0

Posted by timothy on from the rewritten-from-scratch dept.

werfu writes "Compiz 0.9.0, the first release of Compiz rewritten in C++, has been announced on the Compiz mailing list. See the announcement for more info." Compiz has for years been one of my favorite ways to make Windows users envious, despite my (Linux) systems' otherwise low-end graphics capabilities. Besides the switch to C++ from C, this release "brings a whole new developer API, splits rendering into plugins, switches the buildsystem from automake to cmake and brings minor functionality improvements."

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  1. Summary Fail by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The relevant words from the announcement are "complete rewrite". Or in simpler terms for the users, you do not want to run this until it reaches 0.10 (also as per the article.) This is a development and not stable release. (Sure would be nice if they would go 1.0 instead of .10 if it's going to be a stable release...)

    Here's the stuff from the announcement interesting to users:

    Rendering framework split into the composite and opengl plugins, the former
        making compiz a compositing window manager and the latter performing that
        compositing using OpenGL. Such a split will allow new rendering plugins such
        as XRender and Clutter to be developed as well as for compiz to run as a
        non-compositing window manager

    Added support to drag windows to edges and have them fill the adjacent side of
        the screen

    * Added support for automatic wallpaper rotation
    * Added edge support to grid plugin so windows can easily be resized by dragging
        to an edge or corner

    Everything else is of interest only to developers...

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  2. Re:favorite way by ZERO1ZERO · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Compiz doesn't actually use that much system resources, nor strain your hardware either. It uses your gfx card to do all the work, which otherwise would be doing 99% nothing in most other circumstances anyway.