Qt-subapplication

[Jonas Norlander]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
>> I noticed that too, however, I am not running Compiz.  I am in Jaunty Beta,
>> though, and the Desktop Effects are much like Compiz.  I thought about it, but
>> everything has to be so exact with Linux, I dismissed the idea.  I could not
>> see Desktop Effects being associated with Compiz, unless stated as such.
>
> I believe "Desktop Effects" is in fact the same thing as Compiz.  See
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/desktop-effects-kde .  It does kind of
> seem like a pointless renaming.
>
> Matt Flaschen
>

I don't agree. Compiz/Compiz-fusion and KWin is two different
compositing window manager that both can use OpenGL for Desktop
effects. The desktop-effects-kde package is only a GUI front end to
configure the the Compiz window manager and it's plugins if I
understand it right.

http://www.compiz.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositing_window_manager

/ Jonas