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

[Vincent Weber]

Hey this text placed here I saw on a website yesterday o0!!!

2006/3/20, Zbigniew Braniecki <zbigniew.braniecki at gmail.com>:
>
> 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
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