On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:05:25 +0000 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> said:
> On Friday 24 Feb 2012 01:05:15 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > 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. :) > > Well, I can't say it is bug(s) but it is a matter of overall responsiveness > and resources used, especially on older systems. Composite uses (slightly) > more CPU and memory on my amd64 box and more so on an old x86 with a PIII on > it. the lowest-end machine i've use it on is a pentium-m@600mhz - it works very well there. sure - not silky smooth but very usable... considering its copying mountains of data around and rendering everything with the cpu (clients included) it's pretty amazing. :) seriously... software compositing is working (decently) on PHONES... yes - its a price to pay - software compositing adds an extra copy from x to local data first before drawing and then writing it back to x - so it adds extra overhead. theres no zero copy path like gl + texture-from-pixmap. > Plus when say I watch something in mplayer and I move focus to another > window, then the mplayer window becomes transparent and the picture fades. > Since the cursor does not automatically follow my eyes I just switch > composite off. you can select what style u want with compositing - its there in the comp gui to select. you can have the fading disabled - wobbles too etc. -- ------------- 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
