Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:59:01 -0400 "Carl Bolduc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > >> Hi, >> >> Now that AIGLX is inside xorg, is there plans for E to use composite effects >> such as the ones that metacity and compiz are using? Maybe in 0.18 ;) >> >> Bye bye, > > we have made it clear - e17 is not using xcomposite & friends - they are too > immature, unstable and resource intensive. aiglx SIMPLY allows for a GL based > composite manager to work sanely - it makes it possible. you are free to write > a gl based composite manager - if you like - but we have a lot more important > things to work on that don't rely on closed drivers to work properly or > bleeding edge hardware. > > X in general has big big big big issues w3hen it comes to video memory > management in composited environments. if you don't have at least 128mb of > video > ram - forget it (imho). and even if you do - the more, the better. > > the technology needs to mature - the drivers need to - x needs to. >
But there is a module in e_modules (bling?) which is a preliminary composite manager. Needs more work though. Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
