Xgl-Kubuntu-Ubuntu or SuSE -- Is it possible?

[Lord Sauron]

On 5/15/06, vayu <vayu at sklinks.com> wrote:
>
> On May 15, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Robert Tilley wrote:
>
> > On Monday 15 May 2006 15:58, Lord Sauron wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> >> Xgl is developed by Novell on SuSE and OpenSuSE.  Debian-based
> >> support
> >> is almost non-existant.  To compound this problem, my fellow KDE
> >> devotee, Xgl is developed by Gnome people.  It's tested
> >> (primarily) on
> >> Gnome, and KDE support isn't yet really tested all that much.  If
> >> you'd like to help improve Xgl, once you get it working, send the Xgl
> >> project bug reports!  Help them beat M$ to having a fully 3D desktop!
> >> (Windows Vista, due sometime in 2007, is redoing things such that
> >> everything is rendered in Direct3D instead of GDI+).
> >>
> >>> Anyway, just try it out :)
> >>
> >> Please, do so!  Remember, good, educated bug reports are the best!
> >> Only send one if you can repeat a problem.  Whatever.  I could go on
> >> for pages about good bug report practices.  There's a 100% chance
> >> there's a similar treatise online somewhere, so I'll shut up about
> >> now.
> >
> > Given the above, let me restate the problem.  I would like to
> > install Xgl on
> > Linux on my Dell Dimension 2350.  I would like to stay with
> > Debian/Kubuntu/Ubuntu.  Can Ubuntu support Xgl?  Do I need to
> > switch to SuSE
> > or OpenSuSE?  I can sacrifice some KDE-goodness for the overly-
> > sufficient
> > eye-candy of Xgl and compiz.
> >
> > Thanks, Bob
>
>
> People are having success with Gnome based Ubuntu and I've seen
> reports of people doing well with Kubuntu.  I think the above is
> saying it's better with Gnome over KDE, not that it's problematic
> with Ubuntu.

It's not Ubuntu.  It's that Xgl is built and developed and tested in
and on Gnome.  KDE testing is very very rare.

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