compiz , beryl和compiz-fusion

说说他们的区别.主要参考Compiz的wiki.

What Compiz is

Compiz is a compositing window manager. It has a flexible plugin interface which allows developers to use it for many different tasks.

More specifically, Compiz is a software project with its home at freedesktop.org. It contains a limited set of core plugins, some of which provide basic window manager functionality, other internal functionality that plugins may rely on, and some basic, yet signature effects (Cube and Wobbly to name a few). You can use Compiz on its own, as many choose to do, but you can also extend it. Compiz is what we consider the core of what Compiz Fusion is based on.

compiz,混合wm+简单的core plugins.compiz fusion是建立它之上的.

Beryl

Beryl(绿宝石) was the name of a community project that was forked from Compiz in August 2006. Many community developers who worked on Compiz switched to work on Beryl when the fork occurred. Beryl was very similar to Compiz code-wise, however it was ultimately unmaintainable. The developers of Compiz and Beryl agreed in August 2006 that a new project would be formed from code derived from both Compiz-Extra and Beryl as a compliment to Compiz. The project was later known as Compiz-Fusion. Many of the former Beryl developers worked on Compiz-Fusion and now work on Compiz.

beryl是从compiz中fork出来的,后来又和compiz-extra一起合并成compiz-fusion.

Compiz-Extra

Compiz Extras was the name given to a package of extra plugins for use with the original Compiz core packages.

What Compiz Fusion is

Compiz Fusion is a project that aims to add more functionality to Compiz by extending it with more plugins, tools and libraries.

Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the Beryl Project and Compiz Extras. It should be noted that what core changes were made to Beryl are not part of Compiz Fusion; they have either been merged or rewritten for Compiz, or remade as Compiz plugins. Changes that were difficult to maintain or potentially unstable were scrapped.

Compiz Fusion uses Compiz as a base. Among the additions it makes are tools like the CompizConfig Settings Manager, libcompizconfig, and a number of plugins.

compiz-fusion还是要以compiz作为base.

转载于:https://www.cnblogs.com/darwin/archive/2011/05/18/2050473.html