Spiftacity?

zachtib · 2006-03-09 18:06:56

Has anyone tried using metacity's new composite manager on arch? And if so, how stable is it?

_Gandalf_ · 2006-03-09 19:21:02

I don't seem to locate spiftacity sources, all i get on google is ubuntu spiftacity stuff.. do u have gnome news link or sth like that?

zachtib · 2006-03-09 20:22:57

I'll look. And I'm not sure that spiftacity is the actual name, or just a nickname from ubuntuforums.org

http://www.gnome.org/%7Edavyd/gnome-2-14/

has some info on the new metacity composite mngr

_Gandalf_ · 2006-03-09 20:55:38

It may be a nickname coz i can't find anything about it, Yet i made a PKGBUILD out of ubuntu original source and spiftacity does not conflict with any metacity file, So am not sure, it may be ubuntu's work, i'll look at it

BTW the xorg-air thing, seems like xorg-server to me...

_Gandalf_ · 2006-03-09 21:22:35

Take a look at this
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread. … spiftacity
It is about the AIGLX Developed by Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx

WillySilly · 2006-03-09 22:33:57

Spiftacity was a name of a cvs branch, it was merged in metacity for 2.14

zachtib · 2006-03-09 23:04:57

WillySilly wrote:

Spiftacity was a name of a cvs branch, it was merged in metacity for 2.14

OK, that makes more sense.

On the subject, how stable is gnome 2.14? should i just use 2.12 for now?

pressh · 2006-03-09 23:20:37

I have no crashes with 2.14, so from that viewpoint it's stable.
Totem is not working as expected, for some applications like f-spot, tomboy and others you'll need to compile some stuff yourself to get it working, as it is not in the repos yet.

So if you have time, try it, as things can break. If you don't have time, wait another week for 2.14 to be released and it will hit testing.

zachtib · 2006-03-09 23:31:08

pressh wrote:

I have no crashes with 2.14, so from that viewpoint it's stable.
Totem is not working as expected, for some applications like f-spot, tomboy and others you'll need to compile some stuff yourself to get it working, as it is not in the repos yet.
So if you have time, try it, as things can break. If you don't have time, wait another week for 2.14 to be released and it will hit testing.

When is 2.14 final going to be released? Have they set a date yet?

nm, March 15

Arch Linux

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