XGL your experiances..

[Lukas Sabota]

I've only used compiz briefly (I had too many random X crashes with
XGL), but what were your gripes with it?

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:53 +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:40 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone else find these new features useful or are they just toy's
> > for you and after looking you've switched them off?
> 
> The only problem I have with xgl/Compiz is that the window manager is
> second rate. After only a few hours of use, the way the window manager
> worked  (or didn't work) was such a barrier that I was back on e17.
> 
> As nice and usable as those features were, if the basic usability is not
> done right, in this case for me it was the WM, then it's not going to
> stick with users.
> 
> I found the cube and wobble refreshing and you nailed it with the
> description of them feeling organic. 
> 
> --
> Cheers,
>       Craige.