Comment 11 for bug 63208

> Compiz/Beryl *WORKED* in edgy, and the edgy libwnck packages *have the patches applied*.

no they didn't, you likely installed the patched version from the non-Ubuntu compiz archive. We had some discussion with the guy working on those packages after tracking a bunch of crasher sent on launchpad which turned to be due to the patches, you can read bug #72804 about it

> You can't enable functionality like this in one version, then disable it in the next without users complaining.

That's why we didn't use those libwnck patches in Ubuntu

> So if ubuntu is now deciding to abandon that cutting edge advantage over a beauracratic upstream patch policy, I'd say that's a shame.

We don't do that, we just refuse to apply patches that might not be accepted upstream and create a distribution specific API incompatibility with them, especially that it's not easy to drop a patch and drop compatibility then. Compiz works quite well in edgy, you just have to use workspaces rather than the cube which is the default setup, it's available on the desktop CD, there is a capplet to activate it and it's also integrated with restricted-manager. Do you really think it's not as easily to install and use than when it was on an external apt source?

The rest of your comment is just not worth replying. The cube is just an effect and likely to not be used by default in the next. version. Lot of users are happy with compiz using workspaces as it's working at the moment in Ubuntu, exageration is not a way to argue and I don't think many users will switch distributions only because of the compiz cube effect lacks make the workspace switcher display one area which is a detail