Compiz? GNOME compositing!!

Three days ago a heard about the compositing extension in GNOME. In that post it is explained where it comes from and what’s its future. What I understood, basically, it’s that this extension is a kind of Kwin for GNOME (I know this is not, but it’s an idea).

Anyway, what I want to explain here is that this extension on GNOME 2.24 works very well. I’ve been having problems on Fedora and Ubuntu using compiz. The effects make the system work not smooth (can anybody help me and tell me whats the word to say when something is “not smooth”).

Activating native compositing in GNOME I’m able to use avant window navigator and other apps that need compositing without those problems that compiz usually cause when scrolling on Firefox, maximizing or minimizing windows, refreshing, etc.

So, if you want to be able to use apps that need compositing, but you don’t care about desktop effects, you can use this gnome extension… and I’m sure it’s what all we need (no more useless effects!!).

The way to enable it: you have to install gconf-editor (it’s not installed by default on fedora) and then open a terminal and type:
gconf-editor

A new window will appear. Go to Apps > Metacity > General and check the compositing_manager box. Of course you need that your graphic driver support compositing.

Tags: Compiz, GNOME

GNOME 2.24 Roadmap

It’s been a little over a month since GNOME 2.22 was published and we didn’t know what the Roadmap for GNOME 2.24 was going to be. Finally, GNOME team has publised the scheduled, and it contains important news.

First of all, it is important to note that they’ve started to talk about GNOME 3. As of this moment when we tried to learn something about it, we could only see a note explaining that GNOME 3 development wasn’t necessary because of the stability and good results that GNOME 2 was producing.

As time passed by, GNOME 2 couldn’t offer all that programmers wanted to add to the new releases (above all graphical improvements). So it seems that now they’ve realized that it’s time to prepare the road to GNOME Topaz.

But GNOME 3 is sill far in the future, so we must currently focus on the GNOME 2.24 changes. There will be an important change in this version: Epiphany will migrate the engine from Gecko (firefox) to Webkit (as Safari and Konqueror). The first tests show that the new engine will pass test ACID3 with 100%.

Other improvements will be the unified account management and Exchange 2007 supoort for Evolution (pending on licensing resolution), new artwork (with 256×256 icons, new “black” and “plain” themes, and new wallpapers).

Next months will be amazing for the GNU/Linux community because on June/July will be published KDE 4.1 as well (three days ago the first alpha was published).

• Source | VivaLinux
• Link | GNOME RoadMap

Tags: GNOME

News about GNOME 2.24

It’s been a little over a month since GNOME 2.22 was published, we

Tags: GNOME