What does compiz means literally in swedish?

[euskal]

I was searching on wikipedia for the compiz real meaning

I found this two:

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompis
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMPIS (this a förgreningssida, bifurcation)


Does it have any relation with friendship?

ps: it would be a nice add to the wiki... :D

[mikedee]

We have never heard the full story, I dont think its a literal translation.

My personal best guess is that in the early days there was no name and all the function names started comp (maybe to stand for composited). Then came a time for a name and compiz sounded nice because its a bit like friendship in Swedish.

None of this should be taken as official. If you want the real story you should mail David, I suspect its something like that though.

I think a Q & A with David would be nice, if people have any questions for him, we can put them all down and he is willing to answer them. I think its best to send them all at once, it would be nice to have a technical + compiz history mix.

[euskal]

We have never heard the full story, I dont think its a literal translation.

well the second link is almost "The word" , for swedish and computers, LOL the very first intel-80186 Ibm-compatible developed in sweden

I don't know swedish... this is from an online translator

COMPIS är väl en ordlek med "Computer" och "Kompis"

COMPIS is welfare a vocabulary with " computer " and " mate "

funny isn't it?

[Moses]

Well, "kompis" is colloquial Swedish meaning "pal" or "friend".

COMPIS är väl en ordlek med "Computer" och "Kompis"

This would correctly translate into "COMPIS is sort of/probably a play on words with 'computer' and 'kompis'." (I do not know the context, so I cannot translate it correcly.)

To be honest, the name "Compiz" is what originally attracted me to the project. "Wha'", I thought, "sounds a whole lot friendlier that Metacity!"

[dabear]

Kompis is another word for the English word 'buddy' here in Norway atleast

I suspect the word means the same in sweden too :)

[delphinen]

Compiz comes from "Luminocity". This is something no one ever says, I dont know why; we always mention David Reveman, but we never mention Owen Taylor. Luminocity was an awesome name in my opinion.
For more info:
http://live.gnome.org/Luminocity
http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/xshots

I suppose Compiz now comes from Composite, dont know where the "iz" comez from.

[euskal]

I think a Q & A with David would be nice, if people have any questions for him, we can put them all down and he is willing to answer them. I think its best to send them all at once, it would be nice to have a technical + compiz history mix.


well I have prepared my own Q & A, I call it Compiz & Kompis the funny odd questionarie
I am williing to send it to the mailing list, however I think I 'm passed away with oddities..so I write it down here so you can make your own judgements and improve it, correct it, or make it more technical, etc..... for it to represent in a better way the community...

the name compiz suggests some relation with the words: friend, mate, pal, etc.....

-Is it true?

-Does compiz has a literal translation?, or it's just an ordinary declination for the word composite...


-Were your first steps into programming/computers, with a COMPIS machine? (http://pc-museum.com/030-compis/index.htm)


[list:554e102171]if yes....
-Did it ship with a programers book about Pascal?
-Kompis sounds to me as the equivalent to Computer-Mate (an ancient texas instrumet funny-artifact)...
-Would you say that COMPIS -80186 (http://pc-museum.com/030-compis/index.htm) is a friendly PC?

-Does the compiz code, inherits features of Owen's taylor luminocity-wm project?
-How much part of the current compiz code, rellies on Xgl?
-Would we using some of the features; i.e Gegl and other Xorg bleeding-edge technologies, on our desktops?...(as a part, being implemented in the compiz code?)


finally, the KDE developers are on to their own version of a composite-wm (kompmgr), would you suggest Kompis as a good name?[/list:u:554e102171]