4.8 communication

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Friday 04 November 2011 19:01:27 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi :)
> 
> as you may or may not have noticed, i just blogged about some of the
> upcoming changes in 4.8. i will do a follow up pice in a few days covering
> more of the changes and improvements.
> 
> if there is something you would like to see mentioned, please let me know
> and i'll be sure to include it.
one correction as there was a change of plan during your vacation: the screen 
locker will become a daemon due to security constraints of X11 (when KWin 
crashes a different window could grab the keyboard and the restarted KWin 
would not be able to grab the keyboard and by that not lock the screen - yes X 
sucks). Apart from that everything is the same except that it puts me on time 
pressure to finish it before Friday.

A few things which could be mentioned from KWin front:
* Performance optimization in Effect Handling and Window Painting
* Massive performance improvements in Blur effect by caching the generated 
blurred backgrounds (kudos to Philipp Knechtges)
* Foundation for easier Effects through AnimationEffect class (kudos to Thomas 
Lübking)
* New binary kwin_gles gets build if system has OpenGL ES - allows easy 
switching to GLES.

Cheers
Martin
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