In case you haven’t seen last week’s Compiz-Fusion Community News update, there was a new alternative to the CCSM (CompizConfig Settings Manager) that they’re calling Simple-CCSM. This has the potential to solve 50% of my current complaints about Compiz-Fusion.

Don’t get me wrong, I too think Compiz-Fusion is one of the greatest things to happen to the gui since Xerox gave the mouse to Apple. My major knock against the current offering is that the plethora of configuration options can leave the new users confused. Also, every distro tends to use their own configuration which can make knowing what options are enabled on any given system a bit of guesswork.

The new CCSM-simple will be a good chance for distros to standardize on a more predictable default set of effect and features, while allowing the seasoned enthusiasts to continue to customize to their heart’s content in the classic CCSM. This is a big win in my book. And this new option comes just in time as compiz-fusion is to be turned on by default in the upcoming Ubuntu 7.10 release.