Using AWN in Shift Gnome / KDE


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Looks cool, and would be a differentiation. (Y)

Seems that this might still be too 'unstable' to use in a released Shift, though. While I don't really have a problem with it being a 0.2.6 version, it indicates this may be a bit young and have some issues. In particular, I think that thier FAQ bothered me with their red background warning regarding having AWN start up with the session:

Warning: The following advice may or may not work, depending on how your desktop environment deals with compositing. Make sure that if you use a compositing manager that is separate from your window manager, that the compositing manager is started first. A workaround is to prepend "sleep 10 && " to the command, in the cases of Gnome and Xfce. In the case of KDE, you need to create a shell script in the $HOME/.kde/Autostart folder that looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
sleep 10 && avant-window-navigator

If AWN is reliable enough to have a single configuration that works across all user setup (compositing managers seems to be a big sticking point), then I think Shift should go for it!

If it ends up that AWN breaks on some user config options, and requires "tweaking", then I think Shift would be better off not enabling this by default. How much experience with AWN do Shift team members have? Or other *nix users? Can they shed some light into how portable/universal it works with different WMs/composting/video settings?

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Right, well I tried it on KDE last night, and it ran first time - messed around with the config for a while and I couldn't break it, so it actually looks pretty stable.

That said, I'll try and integrate it into an ISO and attempt to get it to run on first boot - think that may be a different story though.

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^ I agree with Mark.... if it requires tweaking to use, the average joe won't want to use it. Let's see what happens when bmaher tries it on KDE!

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