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

[Rajeev J Sebastian]

On Monday 20 March 2006 23:40, Sébastien Laoût wrote:
> I have tested Xgl recently, and it's so smooth with GNOME apps!
>
> I can resize a GNOME app window and it resize without any flicker, like
> expected.
>
> With any KDE apps, there is a latency: you resize up the window, the new
> window area is filled with gray (the window background color) and then some
> milliseconds later, the entire window content is displayed resized to the
> new window size.
>
> Well... don't talk about OpenOffice.org where the window content is full of
> crap during resizing.
>
> But at least with GNOME apps it feels like the window content AND the
> window decoration are one ROCK bloc.
> It feels better confident.
>
> Is there a technology hidden into that mirracle?
> Is there a possibility that the window decoration send a repaint event to
> the window content, and when the content is fully painted offscreen then
> the window content AND decoration are resized together?
>
> Would it be hard to implement such things in Qt/KDE apps?
>
> Would it be possible to do it in KDE 3.5.x, because KDE 4 is still one year
> ahead and more and more distributions will start to ship with Xgl: could be
> good if users would be confident with KDE apps, and I don't think this
> should be complicated to do... unless it's only possible in Qt4 or...
It would be nice if this use of OpenGL isn't a default ... it would be 
impossible to market a KDE-based distribution in, say, India.

Regards,
Rajeev J Sebastian