Review Request: Add support for building libplasma with GLES2

[Martin Gräßlin]

----- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung -----
> On Friday, February 25, 2011 04:29:36 Jammy Zhou wrote:
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> > http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100705/
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> > Update the patch to remove direct OpenGL dependency for libplasma. The
> > OpenGL usage in libplasma should better go through libQtOpenGL,which
> > can be enabled for desktop OpenGL or OpenGL ES2.0
> > 
> > Summary
> > -------
> > 
> > After build kwin with GLES2 code path, the kwin binary still has
> > dependency on libGL.so, which is introduced by libplasma.so. Then we
> > also need to add GLES2 support to libplasma, so that kwin/plasma only
> > has dependency on libGLESv2.so in this case.
> > 
> > The new option "BUILD_PLASMA_WITH_OPENGLES" added in attached patch is
> > disabled by default, and distributions can turn it on when do packaging
> > for OpenGL ES2.0 support.
> 
> Shouldn't that option cover both, kwin and plasma? Or are there serious
> cases   where you'd want one, but not the other on opengl-es? If not,
> let's merge them   to prevent building and packaging headaches.
First of all: the problem has been solved by removing the libGL dependency from libplasma.

Now to the other question: yes there are cases for having kwin with gles and plasma with gl. kwin will start to focus on gles only (wayland) while there is no reason for Plasma to restrict on the gles api.

Cheers
Martin
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