On the way to Beryl-Compiz Merge
by cyberorg,
Friday, March 30th, 2007 @ 11:55 am
After months of talking (possibly more lines than there are lines of code in both projects) things seems to be on the right track for merged project..
One of the contentious issue is the name for merged project. I am sure as mentioned in one of the earlier posts, the new project will be based on compiz core, so I do not see any name change for the core, the name change might only apply to the merged community. Do we need a name change? can you come up with really cool name for merged compiz-community and beryl project?
While there has been talks on the side, developers on both sides have been very busy porting most of the Beryl plugin to work with vanilla Compiz core. Here is the impressive list of plugins that now work with Compiz:
3d animation annotate bench blur bs clone crashhandler cube dbus decoration desktopclick fade fakeargb flash fs gconf-dump gconf group ini inotify jpeg kiosk minimize mousegestures move opacify place plane png put quickchange regex resize-extra resize ring rotate scale screenshot showdesktop snow svg switcher trailfocus video vignettes wallpaper wall water widget wobbly zoom
Most exciting among all the above are new 3D animations, group tab and ring switcher plugins.
There is a very good feature overview of other plugins here on compiz site and here on beryl site.
Apart from all these plugins there are many developers working to make using Compiz easier, for example this fantastic firefox extension that lets you set Compiz skydome image right from the browser, gnome-compiz-preferences and opensuse-xgl-settings that makes setting up and customizing compiz painless (no gconf-editor!!).
To get the taste of new Compiz with all the Beryl goodies get compiz-git and compiz-extras-git packages for openSUSE from this repository. A word of warning though, they are test packages so try at your own risk.
: ejk, March 30, 2007 @ 2:18 pm
How ’bout… “Berpiz”?
Well? Huh? Anybody? =)
: apolodor, March 30, 2007 @ 5:03 pm
How about Bixbite? Morganite doesn’t seem right.
Or maybe Elessar/Elfstone?
: KateOS, March 30, 2007 @ 6:26 pm
Compiz-core should be Compiz
Plugins may be named even KillBill 
it doesn’t mater
: Tachyon, March 30, 2007 @ 7:24 pm
How about:
Hammer - It smashes glass
Diamond - Tougher than Glass
Vista Spanker
Jethro
Junk monkey
: EMoShunz, March 30, 2007 @ 7:34 pm
How about:
ActYouAll
(pronounced actual)
Implying all working together.
: EMoShunz, March 30, 2007 @ 7:34 pm
Also implying an actual 3D environment.
: dragonopolis, March 30, 2007 @ 7:34 pm
I like the gemstone thing. How about Jade?
: Jonathan, March 30, 2007 @ 9:26 pm
I’m a marketing guy; Linux Bling has always seemed like the perfect name to me. Anything else just sits wrong.
: Jef, March 30, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
Why not just Coryl?
: jim, March 31, 2007 @ 12:37 pm
Why not “Garnet”? It scratches Quartz (Mac OS X zinger), it’s easier to say than Beryl, easier to spell than Compiz, and it has a perfect reddish-cinnamon color (the rock Garnet), reusing Beryl’s current icons. [Garnet's actually a cubic crystal though and base Beryl is itself hexagonal (but can be cut into gems like the icon), but most people don't think about those things, so it still flies]. The only namespace collision I can think of is Palm OS/Garnet OS but that’s far enough off the radar it’s not likely to be confused. Topaz is a good name too, but you run into “Project Topaz” being the hypothetical name for GTK+/Gnome 3.
: Ben, March 31, 2007 @ 12:49 pm
Magnizee is very good too
: Thomas, April 1, 2007 @ 9:58 pm
Wht about comber / bercom?
: EMoShunz, April 3, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
I like the Garnet idea.
On that train though, why not call it Rock, cause a rock would totally smash glass (Vista dig…), altough, I suppose Garnet would too!
: Sidster, April 4, 2007 @ 10:53 am
I think Phoenix could work. I could symbolise a new beginning and all that. I looked up “Phoenix linux” and “Phoenix project” on google, and I don’t think we’d be treading on too many toes.
Whadya fink?
: Aetherius, April 5, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
Another vote for Coryl here, definitely the best I’ve heard yet
: Rageway, April 14, 2007 @ 10:54 am
Phoenix is the best name i rode right now !
Yea it really could be very well
: kusti85, April 22, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
100% for Project Garnet