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Topic: Did you know Emerald is a dead project?

So I just found out that Emerald is dead, and has been for a long time. Since Emerald is my prefered Window Decorator in Compiz standalone, I feel kinda screwed at the moment.

Also I asked on the Arch boards what the future will hold for Compiz - not much as far as I can guess. Seems that I'll be moving away to GNOME Shell then, when the issues with Catalyst are solved.

Did you know Emerald is considered dead?

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Re: Did you know Emerald is a dead project?

As long as it actually works it can be as dead as it wants. %)

Some people say Perl is dead, but I love it anyway. )

They say Compiz has a window decorator of some sort though: http://wiki.compiz.org/Decorators/GTKWindowDecorator

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Re: Did you know Emerald is a dead project?

Maybe there is will be a replacement for emerald?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_(window_decorator)

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Re: Did you know Emerald is a dead project?

tartan wrote:

As long as it actually works it can be as dead as it wants. %)

Some people say Perl is dead, but I love it anyway. )

They say Compiz has a window decorator of some sort though: http://wiki.compiz.org/Decorators/GTKWindowDecorator

GTKWindowDecorator has been around for a long time.. actually it's just metacity AFAIK. Pulls in alot of gnome deps last time I tried, so not really a solution. Oh, and now that metacity is getting deprecated pretty soon as well, it gets even worse.

You're right about the first part though lol

muzieca wrote:

Maybe there is will be a replacement for emerald?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_(window_decorator)

One Arch guy said they were working on a new release named Jasper, but they abandoned the project.

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Re: Did you know Emerald is a dead project?

It is strange for software in such wide use to go "dead". I know lots of the software I write for my own personal libraries never gets developed past "it does what it is designed too". I don't think that is the case here though, I would be interested to know why the project isn't active usually people lose intrest because of more popular/better alternatives but, I don't see that being the case either.

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Re: Did you know Emerald is a dead project?

I don't care whether it's dead or not. It's there and it's good the way it is. I will simply continue using the sources we have until GTK does something to screw up the design. Yep yep...

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Re: Did you know Emerald is a dead project?

Awebb wrote:

I don't care whether it's dead or not. It's there and it's good the way it is. I will simply continue using the sources we have until GTK does something to screw up the design. Yep yep...

Same, until GNOME Shell works with Catalyst. I wanted to switch anyway.

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