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[Lubos Lunak]

On Thursday 06 of March 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 06 March 2008, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 of March 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > it really ought to be a goal imho to get compositing everywhere.
> >
> >  You mean, you'd like to see every user using compositing soon? I think
> > you'd better not expect that.
>
> well, yes. and so it's a "goal", something to work towards.
>
> this is at some level out of our own hands, but i find that when enough
> people enunciate their goals clearly, others take up the charge elsewhere
> as well. i really don't think that "graphics effects everywhere" idea is
> really being taken overly serious in the x.org (both the main project and
> driver writers) camp yet.
>
> we'll always have "legacy devices" that don't do compositing, but the free
> software ought to be moving towards making such
> non-composition-systems "legacy" rather than "some current devices"

 But it should be taken only that far, one should not have such things as hard 
requirements. It's the same like with suggesting that systray should be based 
on XRender pictures - you just realistically can't do that, especially given 
that other options are possible and without any noticeable high cost.

> this does not obviate the need to address issues that arise right now from
> the brokeness of compositing in x.org based systems, but i think it's a
> useful goal to have and keep reminding others (not just KDE people) about.

 Ok, good to hear that. My home machine has only GeForce2, where I don't think 
the ARGB redraw problems e.g. in KRunner will ever be fixed, so I'll try to 
do something about the automatic ARGB visual selection in the apps.

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Lubos Lunak
KDE developer
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