Metacity as a compositing manager

[Martin Owens]

> In the interest of feature-parity, the relevant question to my mind is:
> can composited Metacity do everything that the default Compiz can?  I'm
> not talking about what can be enabled with ccsm or simple-ccsm, but what
> can be enabled in Appearances -> Desktop Effects.  If the simple
> transitions and wall and things that are available in "Normal" and
> "Extra" (on KDE at the moment, so unsure of phrasing) mode are available
> then yes, I would remove Compiz and let Metacity handle it.  For the
> record: KWin does handle these things just fine from what I can tell.

If metacity just does the features in 'Normal' visual effects. Then you
could reserve the Extra button for installing compiz, much like the
codecs are installed.

That way you don't need them on the CD, but they are still there where
people expect it to be.

Regards, Martin