Friday, March 31, 2023

Re: retire x11/compton?

On 2023/03/30 16:16, Omar Polo wrote:
> On 2023/03/29 22:59:38 -0400, Thomas Frohwein <tfrohwein@fastmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > compton hasn't seen any updates in over 5 years. As far as I can tell,
> > the generally accepted successor if picom which we have in ports. I
> > don't see a good reason to keep an outdated compositor in the ports
> > tree. ok to retire it?
>
> +1 for me!
>
> We could even automatically migrate users to picom (there's a flag to
> install "compton" symlink), although I don't know how much of the
> config format of compton picom currently understands (they dropped
> some options IIRC.)

Think I'd prefer a quirk with a custom obsolete_message suggesting
picom instead.

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