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Unfortunately, Compiz seems not to be actively maintained since 2016. It looks like the development is suddenly stopped. It is quite surprising to me considerin

Unfortunately, Compiz seems not to be actively maintained since 2016. It looks like the development is suddenly stopped. It is quite surprising to me considering the fame in the past. I'm kinda wondering what happened to them. [1]: https://launchpad.net/compiz https://launchpad.net/compiz

iXce 8y ago
Hasn't Ubuntu switched back to Gnome recently? Since ~2009 most of the effort was Canonical-sponsored. The C++ rewrite was quite a dealbreaker in the flow of the project (which was originally written in C). The time it took to get the rewrite up and running and the language switch had a great toll on the motivation of the contributors.
pnloyd 8y ago
Huge amounts of fragmentation in the dev community for one.. there were several major forks.
- iXce 8y ago
  that was a long time back (2007) though, when the original dev was not willing to integrate contributions
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
  What else could possibly have happened? Fragmentation is the favorite sport of Linux devs.
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soneil 8y ago
My understanding (and I could be entirely wrong) was that compiz was never actually meant to be as big as it was. Compositing was desirable for perfectly mundane reasons, and compiz was a rather cheesy tech demo. I always found it amusing that while I considered compiz a novel way to test that compositing was functioning, others considered it the entire reason to switch DEs, or even OSes.
- lotyrin 8y ago
  Yeah, it struck me as switching to Linux so you could run glxgears.
  - v-yadli 8y ago
    I do remember that Novell used glxgears in their compiz demos!
porjo 8y ago
I guess that rules out any chance of a port to Wayland.
- Elv13 8y ago
  You cannot port a Window Manager to Wayland. You rewrite a WM for Wayland. (disclaimer: Co maintainer of AwesomeWM here, we are doing it by merging with the Way-Cooler project)
  - frankenfatz 8y ago
    This is great news!
  - gbuk2013 8y ago
    AwesomeWM user here - thank you for your efforts! :)
jhasse 8y ago
Development is happening here: https://gitlab.com/compiz https://gitlab.com/compiz

iXce 8y ago

Hasn't Ubuntu switched back to Gnome recently? Since ~2009 most of the effort was Canonical-sponsored. The C++ rewrite was quite a dealbreaker in the flow of the project (which was originally written in C). The time it took to get the rewrite up and running and the language switch had a great toll on the motivation of the contributors.

pnloyd 8y ago

Huge amounts of fragmentation in the dev community for one.. there were several major forks.

iXce 8y ago
that was a long time back (2007) though, when the original dev was not willing to integrate contributions
AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
What else could possibly have happened? Fragmentation is the favorite sport of Linux devs.
- deleted 8y ago
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soneil 8y ago

My understanding (and I could be entirely wrong) was that compiz was never actually meant to be as big as it was. Compositing was desirable for perfectly mundane reasons, and compiz was a rather cheesy tech demo. I always found it amusing that while I considered compiz a novel way to test that compositing was functioning, others considered it the entire reason to switch DEs, or even OSes.

lotyrin 8y ago
Yeah, it struck me as switching to Linux so you could run glxgears.
- v-yadli 8y ago
  I do remember that Novell used glxgears in their compiz demos!

porjo 8y ago

I guess that rules out any chance of a port to Wayland.

Elv13 8y ago
You cannot port a Window Manager to Wayland. You rewrite a WM for Wayland. (disclaimer: Co maintainer of AwesomeWM here, we are doing it by merging with the Way-Cooler project)
- frankenfatz 8y ago
  This is great news!
- gbuk2013 8y ago
  AwesomeWM user here - thank you for your efforts! :)

jhasse 8y ago

Development is happening here: https://gitlab.com/compiz https://gitlab.com/compiz