[RFC] Enforcing Compositing

[Beat Wolf]

Then leave it out during dev, but in when releasing.

I just don't agree that for example nvidia will fix their drivers just because 
kde does not work with some, probably older cards.
But i know that i can't win that debate. But i just know that such a decision 
will cause problems.

Am Sonntag, 20. Februar 2011, um 22:19:53 schrieb Martin Gräßlin:
> On Sunday 20 February 2011 22:11:35 Beat Wolf wrote:
> > On this computer, using the binary nvidia drivers, i could enable
> > compositing. But due to some nvidia driver bugs, my computer becomes
> > slugish very fast, which means compositing is not an option.
> > 
> > i don't think that the x.org environment is stable enough to be able to
> > remove a option that lets you work around bugs.
> 
> bugs need to be fixed and not worked around.
> 
> That is exactly one of the reasons why I want to have it disabled. It's
> just not an option that something like 4.5 happens ever again! We need to
> know problems during development and if devs tend to just turning of
> compositing it will happen again.
> 
> > Beat Wolf
> > 
> > Am Sonntag, 20. Februar 2011, um 22:06:24 schrieb Martin Gräßlin:
> > > On Sunday 20 February 2011 22:00:58 Davide Bettio wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > On 02/20/11 21:57, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > > > No, while the KCM sucks it will still suck after those three
> > > > > options have been
> > > > > removed. It needs a proper redesign, but that is out of the scope
> > > > > of this thread ;-)
> > > > 
> > > > I can't understand the point about removing enable/disable options.
> > > 
> > > if we don't want to give the user the possibility to disable, we don't
> > > need an option to enable/disable.
> > > 
> > > Let's turn the question around: why should the user be able to enable
> > > or disable compositing? What would be a valid reason to do so? And
> > > keep in mind: with Wayland it will be impossible to turn off
> > > compositing, same in GNOME Shell, Unity and Mac OS X (don't know about
> > > Windows).
> > 
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