It's time to jettison CCSM

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Jorge O. Castro <jorge at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Yes, there are lots of ideas but until someone actually has a working
>> patch to make CCSM better, the complaints posted on this thread are
>> still valid. And one of the most important points as Didier posted is
>> that CCSM has had very little work done on it in along time despite
>> known problems. I hate to be off-putting but what CCSM needs is not
>> "power users on mailing lists, forums, twitter, etc." but developers.
>
> More to Petko's point; we do have Compiz bugs and outreach as part of
> the general Unity developer growth. In my experience however it's very
> difficult to get new volunteers to be able to just dive into Compiz
> because it's complicated.

I've noticed there are a couple old merge proposals against
lp:compiz-libcompizconfig that might be relevant to this conversion.
Particularly:

https://code.launchpad.net/~compiz-team/compiz-libcompizconfig/compiz-libcompizconfig.fix_873772/+merge/79456

which aims to fix LP: #873772 and LP: #88190:

"It is possible for users to really mess up their systems by disabling
important plugins like move, resize, composite, opengl and unityshell.
As such, we should provide a way for distributions to be able to lock
down certain parts of the user's configuration, such as settings
values or the plugins one is allowed to have enabled or disabled"

I don't know if Unity/Compiz have a patch pilot scheme, but it would
be nice if someone with the a deeper knowledge of Compiz could help
push these to completion. This is outside of my skill set.

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