On Monday 06 March 2006 15:37, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 16:15 -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > honestly, i don't even think the X.org devs who are doing this work have > > much of an idea on what app devs want out of it > > Mostly these effects shouldn't impact the application at all. As an
well, there are 2 kinds of apps: the kind of app that it really matters for (e.g. desktop / panel / window mnanager) and the sort it doesn't (everything else, which should, in a perfect world, just assume things are Good) > -- windows with per-pixel alpha translucency (I've heard this is > possible, I probably just need to find documentation) cf: argb > -- synchronizing window updates with the compositing manager, especially > during window resizing (if this is fully automatic already, great) this happens below the app layer. > -- XRENDER extensions for accelerated SVG-style filters as i understand it, already exists. > -- fast XRENDER (especially fast subpixel-AA text) > -- fast XRENDER =) talk to hardware vendors? -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)
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