Talk:Beryl (window manager)

message: Looks like there are some vandalism (2008 release date??) on this page.. could someone check it ??  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.205.135.101 (talk) 16:09, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalisms 

message: :Beryl is a compositing window manager for the X Window System. […]The window-manager, formely known as cgwd, is now named emerald.
I thought the window manager was named Beryl. —Frungi 22:21, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a good question. I've wondered about Beryl being called a window manager before.--roger6106 22:25, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *AFAIK, Beryl is a window manager, and Emerald a theme/decoration manager. Beryl handles the movement and placement of, and interacion with, the windows. Emerald manages the design of the window decorations. With other WMs, both are one and the same. Isilanes 16:34, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Window Manager? 

message: If you follow the link on the page to the beryl-project wiki, you will see that it is already licensed under GNU FDL 1.2 as is WP.
* Whoops, I goofed. (It was still a copyvio, though, since a copyright notice wasn't included on the talk page. But never mind.) - Sikon 18:01, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright? 

message: All the links to the beryl forum seems to be broken. 83.254.92.155 02:15, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken links 

message: Isn't it too specific? --80.63.213.182 17:18, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. A summary (with respective references) of what the devs want to achieve with version 0.2.0 would be more appropriate. - Cyrus XIII 02:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It does make it look a bit like a press release or like the project's home page more like the project's bug tracking system than anything else. I'm going to tag the article as in need of cleanup. — jammycakes (t) 23:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done today :)  guiltyspark 23:54, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the "Roadmap" section really supposed to be in Wikipedia? 

message: People can install it bassed on distro howtos but wikipedia should have like a tips section to explain how to do certain things with it.
Eg pressing F3 makes it snow.  Even something as basic as ctrl+alt+click activates the cube (took me forever to figure that one out...).  I still don't know how to do the page curl effect.  And not just default keys -- usage in general.  Eg you can customize themes even further w/ engines.
I wouldn't be the one to write these either -- I just installed the thing today. 1veedo
But wouldn't that turn the article into a manual? Eyra 06:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Howto/tips section 

message: Any editor who wants to easily try out Beryl (with Emerald) to see what it does can get Knoppix 5.1.1 from   or , which will run it with many 3D graphics cards (at least ATI ones) without installation. --Theosch 21:20, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trying out Beryl using Knoppix 5.1 

message: Which one is it?  Does it have no Gnome dependency or "almost" no gnome dependency?
*Uses flat file backend instead of gconf, almost no GNOME dependency.
** Compiz now has a flat file backend with no gnome dependency. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DamianCunniff (talk • contribs) 22:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differences 

message: The project leader was not in fact Eamonn Bell (me). This misinformation has been mirrored and translated variously since the vandalising edit (by someone else) on blogs around the net. The content was verifiable but never was verified. How to purge answers.com, etc. of their mal-content? Can anyone help?
88.151.83.57 09:51, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project Leader 

message: Look at the "Glass" window picture.
Now look at Windows Aero.
Notice
A) Blur effect
B) Shape of minimize/maximize/exit buttons
Shouldn't there be a section on this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.175.17.2 (talk) 15:58, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similarities? 

message: I can't tell which bullet point refers to Compiz and which refer to Beryl.  For example, one of the bullet points is: "Contained three themeable decorators: Emerald, Heliodor, and Aquamarine".  Is that a comment about Compiz or about Beryl? Levander (talk) 16:34, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differences section vagarities 

message: As Compiz Fusion, Compiz++ and Nomad are going to be merged back into Compiz , we should merge the articles Beryl, as it doesn't exist anymore, and Compiz Fusion into Compiz. --KDesk (talk) 22:26, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Merges of Compiz