more thoughts on kwin and window thumbnails in plasma shells

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Wednesday 16 May 2012 14:14:51 Marco Martin wrote:
> 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.
good, we agree. I just wanted to point out we should not discard possible 
technical solutions with such arguments.

Cheers
Martin
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