[Panel-devel] Xgl, AiGLX, EXA, Compiz, Luminocity, QT4...

[Zbigniew Braniecki]

Hi, I'd like to ask some questions about the future of X.org and
graphic feature set for KDE4.
Please, don't find it as ANYTHING anywere near to flamewar. I'm just
confused and I'd like to discuss the way KDE wants to go here.

I saw Xgl, it seems to be a great piece of work (I'm not discussing if
it's right choice as architectural decision). It works on today's
software (like X.org 7.0 and KDE 3.5) which is great.
I assume that AiGLX works very similar which is cool as well.

I saw something called Luminocity, and it was also nice piece of work,
and then I saw Zack's demo's of very similar features for KDE.

I was very interested in EXA, but it seems that some code was added to
X.org 7.0 and nothing happens now around it (I checked X.org wiki - no
news there :( ).

Now. As I understand, Xgl is going to be included in X.org server in
the future. AiXGL is not, EXA already is there.

I read that KDE people are not happy about Xgl/AiXGL because it does
what DE should do, not X server.

But KDE can't ignore the fact that Xgl exists and is usable (yes, I
tested it on Gentoo and SuSe and Ubuntu and it works on 3 various
machines. It's not mature, but it works surprisingly well), so I'm
wondering if KDE4 will be using Xgl/Xegl features somehow, will KDE
try to use AiXGL somehow?
What's the plan about it? To stick to X.org 7.0 feature set and
develop basing on Qt only? Will Qt integrate with Xgl/Xegl via KDE?

I'm sorry if my questions sounds stupid, I don't know those
technologies too much so possibly I'm messing many different levels,
but my point of view is not a technical discussion about what should
be where and which is better, but rather a question about what KDE4
wants to use for graphic feature set and how much of it will be shared
through X.org and freedesktop.org with other DE's.

Greetings
Zbigniew Braniecki