Bug 266557

Summary:	FreeBSD Handbook: The X Window System: Installing Compiz Fusion is no longer easy
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Graham Perrin <grahamperrin>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Graham Perrin <grahamperrin>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	carlavilla, doc, fernape, tuc03516
Priority:	---	Keywords:	needs-patch
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any
URL:	https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/blob/main/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/x11/_index.adoc#x-compiz-fusion
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	263315

Description Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2022-09-23 00:27:41 UTC

Yesterday in Discord, user exit70#3252 wrote(1): 

> this section 
> <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x-compiz-fusion> 
> seems to be very out of date

True. For example: 

> … Installing the Compiz Fusion package is easy, …

– the package was removed more than two years ago. From <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/f118043f7e5359baac271e6812336cd7c3eb41f6>: 

> 2020-03-02 x11-wm/compiz-fusion: Old, uses EOLed python27

So: 

* should we remove the entire section? 

Currently numbered 8. 

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(1) <https://discord.com/channels/727023752348434432/760416197803245591/1022368731080433764>

Comment 1 tuc03516 2022-09-24 23:42:14 UTC

I believe this Compiz was merged into KDE wasn't it? Unless I'm misremembering either removal or a note on how to access these features within KDE would be nice.

Comment 2 Fernando Apesteguía freebsd_committer

2022-10-09 15:56:12 UTC

^Triage: reporter is committer, assign accordingly.

Comment 3 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2022-12-30 11:59:45 UTC

Triage, batch edit (just one): 

* for twenty-eight FreeBSD Handbook-related reports that had gained a 
  personal assignee, prior group/list assignee doc@ was 
  missing from the CC list.

Gentle hint: <https://wiki.freebsd.org/Bugzilla/> ▶ do, don't …

Comment 4 Sergio Carlavilla Delgado freebsd_committer

2023-02-13 20:09:38 UTC

The X11 has been rewritten in: https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/?id=4d1de1c7246d147e1c428b542350695b8fedf84e