Compiz 0.9.2

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Compiz 0.9.2



Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. The project provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE.

· Window management has never looked so enticing: Through OpenGL accelerated compositing, Compiz provides tons of new visual effects. It's also flexible enough so you could easily add more through a plugin system.
· Compiz is compatible: Any X Window System based desktop environment, including (but not limited to) Gnome and KDE, is supported.

Here are some key features of "Compiz":

· Easily extendible through plugins.
· A growing, friendly community of users.
· Increases productivity and enjoyment.
· Impress your family and friends.
· Compiz is actively developed.

What's New in This Release:

compiz-core:

· Completely rewritten developer API in C++, using boost and stl to simplify a number of tasks originally handled in core.
· Reworked plugin function hooking system, where the WRAP / UNWRAP macros have been replaced with 'smart' function call chains using real function lists that can have any component turned off at any time to save unneeded CPU cycles
· Rendering framework split into the composite and opengl plugins, the former making compiz a compositing window manager and the latter performing that compositing using OpenGL. Such a split will allow new rendering plugins such as XRender and Clutter to be developed as well as for compiz to run as a non-compositing window manager
· Added copytex plugin, which re-implements part of the 'copy mode' texture binding from Beryl. While this is slower, it allows for textures that are larger than the maximum texture size allowed by the host's OpenGL implementation
· Added decoration reparenting to the decoration plugin. This will allow compiz to run with decorations as a non-compositing window manager. Reparenting support added to both gtk-window-decorator and kde4-window-decorator
· Added KDE Plugin to integrate with the QT main loop and create a KApplication, for further integration into KDE.
· Added compiztoolbox library plugin, allows developers to do tedious but repeated actions in many plugins such as set up the application switcher window and draw thumbnails of window
· Plugins rewritten in C++ using the new API
· DBus plugin now uses the screen number to identify compiz instance. This means that scripts which use /allscreens will no longer work. In general this means that paths have now changed to be /org/freedesktop/compiz/screen{screen_number}/ ... In a single instance of compiz, {screen_number} would generally be 0 (i.e screen0)
· Shape drawing implemented in annotate. Also fixed long standing damage bug that caused skips in line drawing.
· Added serialization interface to core, which allows plugins to save activity states on plugin load/unload and through compiz relaunches. The data is stored in X11 window properties and automatically dropped when relevant X11 resources are destroyed

plugins-main:

· Rewritten animations interface; supports object oriented animation construction, which should further simplify creating new animations
· Switchers support viewing only icons
· Added support to drag windows to edges and have them fill the adjacent side of the screen
· Plugins rewritten in C++ using the new API


plugins-extra:

· Added support for automatic wallpaper rotation
· Added edge support to grid plugin so windows can easily be resized by dragging to an edge or corner
· Plugins rewritten in C++ using the new API


plugins-unsupported:

· Rewritten elements interface - allows definition of elements in an object oriented fashion, easily create new plugins that hook into the existing functionality of the plugin
· Plugins rewritten in C++ using the new API


ccsm:

· Number of buttons increased to 20
· Fixed bug newer gtk exposed where values were not read before destroying the dialog window resulting in blank entries


compizconfig-backend-gconf:

· CMake buildsystem


compizconfig-python:

· Distutils buildsystem


libcompizconfig:

· CMake buildsystem
· Plugins rewritten in C++ using the new API

Price: Free
Size: 1.34MB
Download:
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