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Makes me wonder about what happened to compiz [1] [1] http://www.compiz.org/ http://www.compiz.org/

sp332 8y ago
Ubuntu shipped with Compiz by default up until last year. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/09/wobbly-windows-new-libanimation-linux-library https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/09/wobbly-windows-new-liban... I think the control panel to enable the weird effects was not installed by default though?
romanovcode 8y ago
14 y/olds grew up.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
  Where "growing up" of course means becoming cynical and bitter, and pretending that hating fun is "mature"? And before you tell me that it was impractical... sure, a bit, but I really doubt the wm is a significant limiting factor in anyone's workflow, and it's still every bit as useful as whatever Windows uses these days.
  - bitwize 8y ago
    Fun doesn't belong in a window manager for daily use, I'm sorry. Cute UI animations have a very strong "Pepsi taste test" effect: when you are just trying them out they look interesting and cool, but over the long term, over daily use, they are distracting and present other disadvantages: all compositing WMs, including those on macOS and Windows, introduce latency that straightforward tiling or stacking WMs lack.
    - EthanHeilman 8y ago
      I put goofy things on my terminal backgrounds and desktop. For me they don't seem to get old. I like charm in my life and my UI. As long as it doesn't compromise the utility.
- solarkraft 8y ago
  So far I haven't.
anotheryou 8y ago
somehow the jelly windows never got old for me :) I think here is the newest version existent: https://github.com/compiz-reloaded https://github.com/compiz-reloaded
opencl 8y ago
It's still around, still seems to be getting maintained, people still use it. KDE has had most of the 'cool' compiz effects baked into KWin for ages now, just not turned on by default.
puzzle 8y ago
The original author and main developer, Dave Reveman, started working on other projects for Novell (Silverlight, etc.), then joined Google, where he worked on ChromeOS compositing (obviously) and, more recently, on Crostini. He's a really crazy dude, even outside of computing. With Novell out of the picture, IIRC the project was forked, rewritten and merged a couple of times. Canonical ended up driving most of the development since. Last time I tried it, a year or two ago, it still had those cracktastic special effects, e.g. the flames circling the pointer when you activate the "Show mouse" shortcut.

Ubuntu shipped with Compiz by default up until last year. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/09/wobbly-windows-new-libanimation-linux-library https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/09/wobbly-windows-new-liban... I think the control panel to enable the weird effects was not installed by default though?

romanovcode 8y ago

14 y/olds grew up.

yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
Where "growing up" of course means becoming cynical and bitter, and pretending that hating fun is "mature"? And before you tell me that it was impractical... sure, a bit, but I really doubt the wm is a significant limiting factor in anyone's workflow, and it's still every bit as useful as whatever Windows uses these days.
- bitwize 8y ago
  Fun doesn't belong in a window manager for daily use, I'm sorry. Cute UI animations have a very strong "Pepsi taste test" effect: when you are just trying them out they look interesting and cool, but over the long term, over daily use, they are distracting and present other disadvantages: all compositing WMs, including those on macOS and Windows, introduce latency that straightforward tiling or stacking WMs lack.
  - EthanHeilman 8y ago
    I put goofy things on my terminal backgrounds and desktop. For me they don't seem to get old. I like charm in my life and my UI. As long as it doesn't compromise the utility.
solarkraft 8y ago
So far I haven't.

anotheryou 8y ago

somehow the jelly windows never got old for me :) I think here is the newest version existent: https://github.com/compiz-reloaded https://github.com/compiz-reloaded

opencl 8y ago

It's still around, still seems to be getting maintained, people still use it. KDE has had most of the 'cool' compiz effects baked into KWin for ages now, just not turned on by default.

puzzle 8y ago

The original author and main developer, Dave Reveman, started working on other projects for Novell (Silverlight, etc.), then joined Google, where he worked on ChromeOS compositing (obviously) and, more recently, on Crostini. He's a really crazy dude, even outside of computing. With Novell out of the picture, IIRC the project was forked, rewritten and merged a couple of times. Canonical ended up driving most of the development since. Last time I tried it, a year or two ago, it still had those cracktastic special effects, e.g. the flames circling the pointer when you activate the "Show mouse" shortcut.