http://dev.compiz.org/~cornelius Just another Compiz Fusion Blog Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:28:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Compiz 0.8.4 is now out! This release brings two new plugins, translation updates, many bug fixes, improved stability, and better screen resolution change handling. Also included is additional integration work for KDE 4. You can find the official announcement in Compiz Community list archives. Have fun using Compiz! http://dev.compiz.org/~cornelius/2009/10/14/compiz-084/ One thing that bothered me about our settings managers (and Compiz) was that they take too long to start. A major reason for this was the XML metadata loading and parsing. Settings managers (ccsm, simple-ccsm, and simple-ccsm-kde) do the metadata parsing through libcompizconfig, whereas Compiz does some metadata parsing itself ... http://dev.compiz.org/~cornelius/2008/10/19/startup-time-improvements-part-1/