[RFC] Enforcing Compositing

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Sunday 20 February 2011 22:11:35 Beat Wolf wrote:
> On this computer, using the binary nvidia drivers, i could enable
> compositing. But due to some nvidia driver bugs, my computer becomes
> slugish very fast, which means compositing is not an option.
> 
> i don't think that the x.org environment is stable enough to be able to
> remove a option that lets you work around bugs.
bugs need to be fixed and not worked around. 

That is exactly one of the reasons why I want to have it disabled. It's just 
not an option that something like 4.5 happens ever again! We need to know 
problems during development and if devs tend to just turning of compositing it 
will happen again.
> 
> 
> Beat Wolf
> 
> Am Sonntag, 20. Februar 2011, um 22:06:24 schrieb Martin Gräßlin:
> > On Sunday 20 February 2011 22:00:58 Davide Bettio wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On 02/20/11 21:57, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > > No, while the KCM sucks it will still suck after those three options
> > > > have been
> > > > removed. It needs a proper redesign, but that is out of the scope of
> > > > this thread ;-)
> > > 
> > > I can't understand the point about removing enable/disable options.
> > 
> > if we don't want to give the user the possibility to disable, we don't
> > need an option to enable/disable.
> > 
> > Let's turn the question around: why should the user be able to enable or
> > disable compositing? What would be a valid reason to do so? And keep in
> > mind: with Wayland it will be impossible to turn off compositing, same in
> > GNOME Shell, Unity and Mac OS X (don't know about Windows).
> 
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