[aur-general] Status of community cleanup 2010.

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 18:07 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think we should drop emerald-themes, I haven't followed compiz dev,
> > but emerald-themes hasn't been updated since 2007 (or any new code in
> > git since then)
> >
> 
> Another reason to drop it (conversation in #compiz)
> 
> 2010-09-01 18:03:30	coz_	td123,  if you want more emerald themes you
> should probaby go to  gnome-look.org and download them
> 2010-09-01 18:03:46	td123	coz_: I'm more interested in the status, I
> don't use it :)
> 2010-09-01 18:03:57	td123	coz_: why would anyone want to use it
> 2010-09-01 18:04:30	coz_	td123,  :)   well it does have a few nice
> options but it is essentially badly coded ... I believe someone tried
> to rewrited in for compiz ++  but I have not tired it
> 2010-09-01 18:04:45	soreau	td123: No one has worked on it for a long
> time now and it isnt supported at all officially
> 2010-09-01 18:04:56	soreau	It just happens to still work
> 2010-09-01 18:05:07	coz_	td123,  a long while back ...a new decorator
> was discussed for about 15 minutes :)
> 2010-09-01 18:05:40	coz_	td123,  but right now gtk window decorator
> and kde4 window decorator are essentially all there is
> 2010-09-01 18:05:52	td123	ok, thanks :)

>From a user's perspective, Emerald themes may be badly coded, but
they're just so much NICER than gtk-window-decorator themes =).

Its going to be a moot point though, once compiz++ comes out. I've
switched to gtk-window-decorator already since I've been testing that on
and off.

So yes, I use emerald-themes personally but based on various sources it
IS deprecated.