more thoughts on kwin and window thumbnails in plasma shells

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Wed May 16 12:14:51 UTC 2012


On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > 
> > well, is just that when the world goes into the compositor, the
> > probability of this happening skyrockets ;)
> 
> Let's try to get our software working and not thinking about solutions for
> the case that our software is buggy. If we allow ourself to consider that
> software components could lock up, our users who blame us for bad quality
> are right. I want us all to get to a point where we don't have to even
> think in the direction of a compositor lockup.

uuuh, not really, our software should be less buggy? sure.
but fault tolerance is an essential part of quality, not just fault 
prevention. one should not influence the other.

Cheers,
Marco Martin


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