[CoLoCo] Beryl

[David Overcash]

Think of it this way.

Regular Ubuntu uses Gnome.  For the special effects, it uses Compiz-fusion,
which runs itself like a layer over Gnome... that's the easiest way to think
of it.  : )

-David



On 10/12/07, Michael TheZorch Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> David Overcash wrote:
> > Just an FYI:
> > What you are labeling as Compiz is actually Gnome.  (So Gnome and KDE
> > are the two big choices when it comes to window managers).
> >
> > Compiz(fusion) is actually a composite window manager that overlays
> > (or embeds into, if you will) on either Gnome or KDE.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > David
> So the desktop in Ubuntu is actually Gnome.  So that means Compiz is
> just another implementation of Gnome developed by another OSS group.
> Similar to the difference between Mozilla and SeaMonkey, right?
>
> That I didn't know.  Regular old Gnome looks very different from Compiz
> so I had no idea they were pretty much the same.
>
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