On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 10:43 +0000, samwise wrote:
So far, the only effects I've found actually useful are the Scale Effect and the Zoom In ... but not in it's favour are the facts that my machine is notably slower when scrolling,
Hmm interesting, not something I have noticed here. If anything memory consumption aside I'd say my machine actually performs better not worse. Particularly I have not noticed anything wrong with scrolling. I wonder if your packages have the blur plugin enabled by default ? It's the only thing I can think of that would cause problems with scrolling performance.
the Adept Notifier app no longer lives in the system tray - instead it's taking up valuable room in the normal taskbar
Not something I can help you with I am afraid, on gnome here.
and the snap-to feature so that windows align themselves with the corner of the screen seems to have gone.
Depending again on which plugins your packages come with you should find a snapping windows control under window management in the beryl settings manager. However be aware that incorrect settings here play havoc with wobbly windows (which I have disabled anyway because they make me feel "funny")
At some point I'll spend some time trying to work the kinks out ... the two useful effects are actually incredible useful so I'd like to keep them, if I can.
I am sure there are answers to your specific problems, one thing about beryl is that there are plenty of options to play with :-)
To be honest for the most part (as I think someone else pointed out) Compiz/Beryl is still very much in the conceptual (look what we can do) phase, a lot of packages come with the "fun" effects like window wobble turned on and the more useful plugins disabled (or at least in a state where you have to learn a keyboard shortcut to really appreciate them)
Some genuinely useful features (like the ones you mention, plus the tile modes, trail focus, full screen apps that can be bent out of the way, various ways to keep apps persistent across workspaces etc etc) are really starting to come on now. Even if the default visual effects are a bit too much in some cases.