mer and kwin compositing

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

> today an old qt4.8 related problem has been resolved on the Mer packages
and
> we have plasma active booting correctly on the x86 mer image.
> it for sure still has some issues and things that don't work, but
nothing that
> can't be resolved with a bit of work, so i must say to everybody
congrats and
> that i'm impressed with the progress of Mer.

Finally! I was so looking forward to this! :)

> i tried to enable opengl compositing for kwin and sure enough it's
working
> perfectly and noticeably faster (i guess also kwin cpu usage during
animations
> came down quite a bit as well)
> 
> So, that's even another argument to start to focus on Mer for the x86
image.

+1000. Time to get off that dead horse!