Upcoming Changes in Experimental X.org Modular Tree

[Florent Thoumie]

Dave Grochowski wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Florent Thoumie wrote:
>> Florent Thoumie wrote:
>>  
>>> Florent Thoumie wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Florent Thoumie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> I'll do something a bit weird with the exp-tree in the next few
>>>>> days...
>>>>>         
>>>> I just pushed my latest changes in the shared repo. As I said, it's now
>>>> in sync with X.org 7.2-RC2. Things shouldn't change much now. There
>>>> will
>>>>  probably be some updates (xorg-server for sure, don't really know
>>>> otherwise) by the end of the month (someone well informed told me that
>>>> 7.2 release will be around a week late). Anyway, if you can reinstall
>>>> from scratch do it, otherwise I'm not sure what's best for you.
>>>>
>>>> Good news is I'll probably have beryl 0.1.2 ports in the exp-tree by
>>>> the
>>>> end of the month. So if you had the possibility to try xorg-modular
>>>> on a
>>>> spare machine and still haven't done it, maybe beryl will convince you.
>>>>       
>>
>> It's in, I just added beryl and emerald ports. Have fun! :-)
>>
>>   
> Beryl works fine on my machine with the 1.0-9629 Nvidia driver.  I have
> two suggestions though:

Good to read, I might upgrade the nvidia beta driver on my laptop then.

> 1. We probably should have a port for the emerald themes. I think Beryl
> actually has a compilation of themes available on their site. If I find
> some time I can whip it up.

It's in x11-themes.

> 2. Would it make more sense to have a Beryl meta-port? I can't imagine
> that anyone would just install beryl-core and not beryl-plugins,
> beryl-settings, and beryl-manager. I suppose it isn't that difficult to
> install each port individually, but I figure that most people would want
> to install them all at once.

Probably yes.

> Other than that, it works great! Thanks for the work on beryl and X.org!

You're welcome :-)

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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