On 11/29/2012 02:36 AM, Petr Koupý wrote: > just to let you know, the lp:~petr-koupy/helenos/gui-optim branch is prepared > for merging into mainline. Among others, it resolves the following tickets: > > http://trac.helenos.org/ticket/478 > http://trac.helenos.org/ticket/482 > http://trac.helenos.org/ticket/483 > http://trac.helenos.org/ticket/484 > http://trac.helenos.org/ticket/485 > > For those that are not familiar with the tickets, the main improvements are: > - significantly faster rendering (making qemu/non-KVM usable) if user limits > himself just to window movement and resizing (i.e. avoiding rotation, > scaling > and transparency) > - preview of the result of window transformation is depicted by a "ghost" > frame > following the mouse pointer > - changing of window focus feels more natural and intuitive (mouse click > handler > behaves more like in mainstream operating systems, window titles changes > color > to reflect whether they have focus or not) > > If you don't have any objections, I will eventually merge the branch into > mainline and close the tickets. Right now, I am however unable to properly > test > the branch with recent mainline changes because of i8042 performance issue > that > is currently being investigated by Jakub. Therefore, I will probably wait > until > it is resolved. In case anybody is eager to have the GUI improvements rather > sooner than later, and is able to test it in VirtualBox or qemu/KVM without > the significantly lagging mouse pointer, feel free to merge it instead of me.
Good job, Petr! I could not resist and already merged this in mainline,1725. The i8042 issue exists in its lighter form for me and the experience from using the GUI is still much much better now. Moreover, your change did not introduce the problem, so there was really no reason to wait. Jakub _______________________________________________ HelenOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.modry.cz/cgi-bin/listinfo/helenos-devel
