Looking for an OpenGL documentation for package in Ubuntu? To begin, what would the package be named? My instincts told me to try gl-doc, libgl-doc, and eventually moved into the territory of libmesa or xorg. Obviously none of these worked. Out of despiration I tried dpkg -l | grep gl | grep doc, and there was nothing.
In the past I’ve used the online GL documentation without any real problem, but I knew I was going to be sitting in a room without internet access for a while. Besides, I want to just type man glBegin, or use yelp. Luckily a nice guy repackage the GL man pages back in 2006, and it appears has been keeping up with them all along.
In between the massive changes to the site (see my twitter) and setting up new developer relationships, I was inspired to work with Compiz Fusion – or what most now just call Compiz. I’ve always wanted to do some plugins, but the problem is jumping into their largely undocumented API. That’s changing a bit now, since there seems to be a better effort and they’ve got a nice start with the Compiz Wiki. Doesn’t it always seem you can just throw MediaWiki (or in this case MoinMoin) at something and it appears to fix itself.
In the past we’ve all pimped out Compiz to the point where we’re basically expecting a Spinner Rims plug-in, but I want to change that a bit. Firstly I think that many effects use too much blending with Opacity, which can be sluggish on older or low-performance hardware. Plus I think the Dodge focus effect, Show Desktop, and other effects that simply “move” windows look really clean.
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