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[wysota]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578

This has nothing to do with "video streaming". I just skeemed through the thread but it looks like it is about getting pulseudio to work with alsa.

I'm not. Ubuntu still is.

Ubuntu's desktop used Metacity and now uses something called Mutter. As far as I can tell compiz (nor Beryl) was never the default window manager in Ubuntu. People indeed did install it to replace Metacity because they wanted to have these useless wobbly window effects compiz was the only one to have back then. These times are now long gone.

If by saying "compiz" you meant "a compositing window manager" then I have bad news for you. Windows and Mac desktops are both by default composited. In the Unix world the trend is to go towards replacing X11 with Wayland which is designed to be a composited environment. Most if not all modern desktop environments (including the largest two -- KDE and Unity) already use compositing window managers. Thus to rephrase a common meme: "Brace yourselves, compositing desktops are coming!".

You would be the first Linux developer I've spoken with who doesn't. Every software engineer I've spoken with had that opinion before I met them.

No comment. I have to be biting my tongue to stay polite.

I'm guessing you read that really fast or just need some sleep. We went with WebEngine because WebKit had too many faults. Hence the wording

"It was due to all of these facts my client opted for WebEngine. For all of its faults, it was "contained" because there were no plug-ins. "

There is no "WebKit" string in your last post, I don't know which are "these facts" you speak about. Besides, Blink/Chromium/WebEngine still has large parts of WebKit inside. Just that you know "these facts" still apply The main difference between WebKit and Chromium is that the latter does out of process rendering and I think since some time also does out of process handling of plugins. That's one of the reasons NPAPI plugins are disabled but at least until recently you could enable them back.

No offense. I don't know how you missed it, but that entire response was both rejecting the false claim below and providing evidence as to why it was false.

Sure, as usual.

I no longer have to solve the packaging issue. We have a packaging person that used to work at the Linux Group who I've worked with before and have a great amount of respect for, showing up in the next couple of days. I am not a packaging person, that is a different skill set from software engineering.

No comment. Biting my tongue again.

Hmm... odd that you thought I've never refuted your claims though. I've done that more than once

No, not once. Not even in this post. Maybe you thought you did. You quietly removed all the technical fragments and focused only on the least important of the soft parts. Nothing relevant about PulseAudio, nothing about the "faults" of Chromium, just nothing...

Perhaps I need to word posts here more like my novels and less like the stuff I send to the other software engineers?

I will ignore your offense. It is your problem that someone needs to get your job done for you, not mine. If you are really interested in phrasing your posts better, spend 15 minutes of your time reading this article, if you already haven't, it really pays off: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[anda_skoa]

Ubuntu's desktop used Metacity and now uses something called Mutter. As far as I can tell compiz (nor Beryl) was never the default window manager in Ubuntu.

Interesting, I always thought that Unity was indeed built on the code base that originated as Compiz. And only the future version, which is incidentally using Qt, does not.
But I am not following Ubuntu, so I could very well be wrong.
Mutter, on the other hand, is used at least by GNOME and, as an extension, by Cinnamon and MATE.

Cheers,
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