Compiz by default ?

[Daniel Marrable]

I believe it depends on the strategic plan.

The biggest wall I face when trying to show people Ubuntu as an alternative
is that they don't care  or have any appreciation of some of the problems I
now take for granted and/or deal with like its no problem.  ie wifi, codecs
etc.  these solutions are trivial for me because they are familiar.  I
digress; The last stable release was the first release that I thought I
could hand to my mum and leave her with unsupervised.  I didn't feel like I
needed to explain too much or make excuses for things like Flash and codecs
(now solved with prompts).

I see this as a really positive step, I don't want to start explaining why
things don't quite work correctly first time again or what you have to do to
get the system working as people expect it too.

However; if the point is to show already computer savvy people what you can
do with Ubuntu then is should be enabled as it may encourage these kinds of
people to use it.  if the strategic plan is to encourage new users like my
mum, (check emails, surf the web only)  then it could be risky.  if it
doesn't look professional or like it still has some bugs, they may be put
off every trying Ubuntu in the future as well.   It shouldn't look like some
clever unit students project, it should look like an alternative OS.

Is it possible to prompt the user to try enable it after the first boot up
rather than just having it sitting in the menu?

this is just based on my experiences

Cheers

Daniel

sorry for the fragmented argument, I haven't had a lot of sleep
On 15/08/07, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 15/08/07, Michael Vogt <michael.vogt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > What we need to do in any case is to raise awareness to the users
> > about this feature. If we decide to enable it by default we should
> > popup something that explains that certain things may not work quite
> > well. If we decide that we should not enable it, we should have a
> > check that tests if it is likely that the system is able to run compiz
> > and if so, popup a notification that tell them what to do to enable
> > desktop-effects. The effects tab in the apperance capplet should also
> > get some additional text that explains that desktop effects may cause
> > issues with windowed 3d applications.
>
> I don't have a detailed grasp of technical issues, but FWIW my opinion
> as a user is that a popup which essentially says "we've enabled a
> feature on your computer without asking you which means that some
> things won't work" is unprofessional. I think the second option is
> much better.
>
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