Hello again. It’s been awhile and now it’s time for another blog post. Included are the details of a compiz maintenance routine outline and release schedule preview.
For those that do not keep track, here is a general overview. My name is Scott Moreau and I’ve been working on compiz for about 8 years by wearing the hats of support, script writer, code contributer and now, maintainer. Over time, many left the project entirely. In the past 4 years, I have been maintaining the official upstream compiz with the assistance of long time server maintainer, Guillaume Seguin. Fortunately, it hasn’t been too much work and graphics drivers have improved greatly thanks to companies like Intel, AMD, RedHat, Novell, Canonical, Collabora, Mozilla, Google, Valve and the many interesting people they’ve employed. Without further ado, here is the general road map outline as it stands currently:
1) Take a snapshot of the preserved original C implementation of all compiz components (currently 0.8.9) including patches we’ve tossed in to keep things going, and make a release dubbed 0.8.10.
2) Test thoroughly
2b) Bump version to 0.8.11
3) Work out obvious, easily fixable problems and consider small improvements, with a strong focus on defaults.
4) Make an eventual 0.8.12 release, when it’s ready.
5) …
I am working on plugins-experimental, a collection of plugins that never really saw the light of day. Not only are these great plugins, but I would like to present this as a celebration of their works and contributions to compiz development throughout the years.
Finally, I would like to thank all of the contributers, developers and testers alike, especially those that have worked hard to improve open source software we cherish today and will continue to use for many years to come. Here is a list of talented individuals, sorry if I’m forgetting anyone.
Sam Lantinga
Ryan Gordon
Richard Goedeken
David Reveman
Pierre Bourdon
Dennis Kasprzyk
Danny Baumann
Guillaume Seguin
Sam Spilsbury
David Richards
Kristian Hoegsberg
Pekka Paalanen
Kristian Lyngstøl
Dave Airlie
All the testers and users worldwide…
Compiz 0.8 Rocks!
YOU GUYS ARE FREAKING AWESOME!!!!! Allow me to repeat. YOU GUYS ARE FREAKING AWESOME!!!
Gratitude and more gratitude: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
Any new updates to the “GRID” options? so screen edge bump makes window resize instead of keyboard commands?
This feature hasn’t been backported from compiz 0.9.x yet.
My only issue with the current “GRID” is that when i press the mapped buttons to resize on left half or right half everything works fine. but.. when i want to reduce the window back to original size i have to manually resize it. I noticed if i hit the mapped key combo 2 times the window gets a bit bigger, and 3 times even bigger yet, 4th time and it goes back to exactly half the screen. 4th press should resize back to original window size, 5th press back to exactly half.
Yes, these issues should be addressed when backporting the drag-to-edge grid features from 0.9
“the drag-to-edge grid features from 0.9”
I would love to see this, especially timed for the upcoming LTS release of ubuntu – my dream remastered iso is so close now….
Thanks in advance ;]
I am a compiz user since 2005. I love the 0.8 version! Thank you for keeping it alive. God bless you all.