The Compiz and Beryl teams are discussing a merger. Posts on the Compiz forum and Beryl mailing list indicate that the projects are discussing how to execute a merger and work together to deliver a single compositing window manager to give “bling” to the Linux desktop.

Beryl forked from Compiz last year, from the community branch of Compiz maintained by Quinn Storm. At the time, Storm said that the split was amicable but necessary because the two projects had different goals. Now, it seems, the projects have found common ground. According to a post on the Compiz forum:

As many of you already know, there have been sporadic discussions with members of the Beryl community over the last few weeks regarding the possibility of reuniting. While these discussions have been informal, they have led to greater cooperation between the communities.

Shortly after I published the description of the proposed restructuring of compiz, Quinn Storm of Beryl published a proposed redefinition of Beryl that was very similar. After some discussions with the Beryl community we came to the conclusion that that Compiz-Extra and Beryl would be nearly identical projects competing against each other using the same (or very similar) core, the same plugins, and having goals that were very similar. The obvious question then became: “Why are we competing?”

At this point we are actively discussing the possibility of reuniting. Many of the issues that caused the fork and have kept us apart are now resolved or irrelevant. The idea we have discussed is combining the Compiz-Extra and Beryl communities under a new name.

By: Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier
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