On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:05:15 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> said:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:57:58 +0000 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> said: > > > On Friday 24 Feb 2012 00:21:00 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > > > you just need xproto + xlibs. > > > > > > just remember that compositing will be broken for you due to your server > > > being old anyway, but e/efl will compile and run but compositing may fail > > > (and we will be moving to compositing only in future). > > > > Oops! Won't we have an option to switch it off if we want to? > > in future - no. for e17 release it'll stay a module, but after that it'll be > compositing only. get used to it - i suggest u use it and report > bugs/issues. :) err thats confusing.. let me try again: in future. not for e17 release. it'll stay a module, but after that it'll be compositing only. get used to it - i suggest u use it and report bugs/issues. :) (there's a whole essay i can write up as to why this needs to be done - but it's either have a pretty inefficient display path that can do both, or an efficient one that does one or the other. right now we consume massively more memory than we need to when compositing, and we have all kinds of limitations (some like to call them bugs) due to having to cram everything into windows when we want content to expand beyond them. also not being able to assume efficient compositing means we cant have rounded window borders and do other design elements that cant be done efficiently non-composited, but can be done efficiently, nicely and beautifully when compositing.) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
