Comment 13 for bug 711561

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Joe Bubba <email address hidden> wrote:
> This is terribly sad. Loss of the compiz cube is a MAJOR loss of functionality.
> By not designing functions and features around it from the start, the developers have made a huge mistake.
>
> I personally will have to stay with 10.10 until this oversight is corrected. I suspect many others will have to do the same.
> This is NOT the way to grow Ubuntu's user base by taking away things people really like and use a lot.
> Adding new features is great, but not at the expense of taking away things that have already proven their popularity.

It is easy to re-add it - just edit the metadata file to remove the dep on Wall.

The reason we are depending on wall at the moment is because of design
considerations - we simply don't have the resources to support
everything at the moment.

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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/711561
>
> Title:
>  Compiz won't allow Desktop Cube plugin to load with unity
>
> Status in Ayatana Design:
>  Won't Fix
> Status in Unity:
>  Won't Fix
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: compiz
>
>  The cooperation of Compiz and Unity is great.
>
>  However, if you try to load the Desktop cube plugin, it asks you if
>  you want to disable the Desktop wall plugin. If you say yes, it wants
>  to disable the Unity plugin (which I'm guessing is a bad idea on a
>  Unity desktop).
>
>  IIRC, the Desktop Cube plugin once ran with unity. I remember running
>  a daily image a while a go (at least a month) and enabling the Desktop
>  Cube, alongside with Unity.
>
>  I'm really hoping that Compiz's signature (the Desktop Cube) won't go
>  away.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: compiz 1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop4-0ubuntu7
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic x86_64
>  Architecture: amd64
>  DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
>   status: connected
>   enabled: enabled
>   dpms: On
>   modes: 1280x800 1024x768 800x600 640x480 720x400 640x400 640x350
>   edid-base64:
>  DRM.card0.VGA.1:
>   status: disconnected
>   enabled: disabled
>   dpms: Off
>   modes:
>   edid-base64:
>  Date: Tue Feb  1 14:57:40 2011
>  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
>  DistroCodename: natty
>  DistroVariant: ubuntu
>  GraphicsCard:   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b7]
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110127)
>  Lsusb:
>   Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>   Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>  MachineType: Hewlett-Packard Presario F500 (GF606UA#ABA)
>  PackageArchitecture: all
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-12-generic root=UUID=f1add3f0-0a81-4f8c-ac34-9dd6917e8bfb ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
>  SourcePackage: compiz
>  UnitySupportTest:
>
>  dmi.bios.date: 12/05/2007
>  dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>  dmi.bios.version: F.1F
>  dmi.board.name: 30D3
>  dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
>  dmi.board.version: 65.3A
>  dmi.chassis.type: 10
>  dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
>  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
>  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.1F:bd12/05/2007:svnHewlett-Packard:pnPresarioF500(GF606UA#ABA):pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn30D3:rvr65.3A:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
>  dmi.product.name: Presario F500 (GF606UA#ABA)
>  dmi.product.version: Rev 1
>  dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu3
>  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10-1ubuntu1
>  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu8
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2+git20110124.fadee040-0ubuntu1
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-1ubuntu2
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu1
>

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Sam Spilsbury