It's time to jettison CCSM

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
<a.starr.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

What is in my skill set is a bit of PyGTK. I've had these two merge
proposals up for almost a week now with no response. I have upload
rights for ccsm in Ubuntu, but I'd still appreciate a code review.

https://code.launchpad.net/~andrewsomething/ubuntu/precise/compizconfig-settings-manager/first_run_warning/+merge/91374

Add a first run dialog providing a user warning.

https://code.launchpad.net/~andrewsomething/ubuntu/precise/compizconfig-settings-manager/disable_unity_checkbox/+merge/91375

 If in a Unity session, don't allow the user to disable Unity from main view.

Thanks,

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