On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2012 14:13:24 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > how > > does this resolve the window thumbnail issue? you can share GL textures > > between processes. this is dependent on the OpenGL stack on the system > > (it is not something OpenGL itself provides and it is done different on > > windows than x.org; probably different again in wayland), but it works. > > in fact, we found an example that does exactly this in zack's graphics > > dojo repo from when he worked at trolltech (yes, trolltech .. before > > nokia). > > I am not sure whether that would work at all. What we have here are not > normal textures but textures from pixmaps. I fear that this makes quite > some difference especially concerning the damage events.
since kwin can draw thumbnails with the correct update window, i assume it has the correct pixmap any given moment? can't that be shared? > > [1] this goes beyond crashes and extends to busy loops -> consider if the > > compositing process locks up .. how does the user then go about fixing > > it? can't see any input or windows -> compositor is still running, just > > not able to paint ... > > For the last point I don't understand any difference to the situation we > have right now. We are f*** up when the compositor locks up. Luckily I > have not heard of it for several years :-) Btw in 4.10 I want to work on well, is just that when the world goes into the compositor, the probability of this happening skyrockets ;) -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
