Here are some exciting new developments that has happened in compiz-fusion world.

Onestone created a new plugin called ‘Shift’ that does Flip and coverflow window switching. Here is the Flip mode:

Coverflow mode:

The above is in addition to what ring and compiz-core switcher can do. If you think your screen need any saving after all that you can enable screensaver from Pafy. The screensaver (does no good to your CPU) has two modes floating windows and cube.

Now, how can you not want windows folding itself into an airplane and flying off into the distance? Carlo Palma just created that animation effect.

Here is the video of it in action: airplane3d.ogg

Checkout the git for source and have fun.

Edit: New packages from the Test Repository should have all the new plugins and effects.

Statistics started to count 4 months ago.
Sum of all downloads (whole build service): 12 747 490
Sum of all downloads filtered by project=X11:XGL: 1 033 406

Here are the statistics downloads from X11:XGL  repository over at openSUSE Build Service, the repository is maintained by me along with Matthias Hopf. It is second in popularity to KDE3 only, shows eyecandy is quite sought after commodity.

I was out attending a two day National Conference on Open Source Software here in Ahmedabad, India. Sparing couple of inspiring talks by prominent FOSS speakers, the entire event was a shame, I am sure the organizers worked very hard putting this event together, however as one participant put it “M$ would have done far better job of executing the event”.

There were two workshops on the second day, I attended “Development track” part, it is best that I do not mention anything about it.

I would like two days of my life back.

On the bright side, Ankit Patel who is leading a team of translators at Red Hat has promised to help with Gujarati translations of Compiz-Fusion, met up with one of our heroes C Umashankar who singlehandedly migrated the entire Tamilnadu State IT infrastructure(over 40000 desktops and servers) to SUSE Linux. We need more people like him around.

There were couple of guys from Mozilla foundation, Seth Bindernagel and Chris Hofmann who made a good impression about Mozilla’s role in making web experience better and safer. Switch to Firefox if you already haven’t.

Another good thing that was highlighted (although most participants lost it by that time) was http://www.icosindia.com/ initiative that would help nurture students interest in open standards and building open source applications for various industry verticals.

Hopefully, Novell will participate in the event next year and will be more appropriate to the name “National Conference”.

Here is the sneak peak into the very latest compiz fusion plugin - atlantis, Onestone is one super programmer to get us this.

Hello Community

I am happy to announce that i18n infrastructure is ready and we can now translate compiz-fusion plugins and ccsm.

We would be creating a team of translators, with one member per lingua in charge of keeping translations up-to-date.

A special obby server has been set up so that translators can work collaboratively at the same time on one document.

Download Gobby and join obby.opencompositing.org port 6523, password is cfteam.

Sign in your name in “i18n General” document, copy over compiz-fusion-plugins.pot and ccsm.pot as yourlocale.po and yourlocal-ccsm.po respectively and you and your team can work on them.

They will be committed periodically to the git tree or as and when translation team member feels that the translation is ready to go in the git.

We would be giving git access to some Language Team members so that they can check in and keep template and .po files updated on obby as well as on git.

Thanks Onestone, Maniac and iXce for all the hard work setting everything up.

Suggestions, comments welcome.

Get local.

-J

Here is David Reveman himself demoing the idea that he worked on during Novell Hackweek.

“Have your desktop run remotely but the compositing manager run locally. It should be possible to detach and reattach at any point in time. Use the X protocol for efficient transport.”