Re: [Desktop_architects] Making X more responsive Was: Linux desktop, the fun thread

2005-12-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Martin Konold wrote: > > Using SIGIO is often a suitable solution if you want to avoid the complexity > of threads. I use it rather often in order to make legacy software more > responsive and in order to add some asynchronous behaviour. Sure. And it's a perfectly fine ca

Re: [Desktop_architects] Making X more responsive Was: Linux desktop, the fun thread

2005-12-14 Thread Keith Packard
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 16:22 +0100, Martin Konold wrote: > Keith: I can assume that in the case of congestion it is not really > desireable > to inform all clients about every small mouse movement. I can imagine that it > is useful to introduce a more relaxed semantic when congestion(*) happens.

[Desktop_architects] Making X more responsive Was: Linux desktop, the fun thread

2005-12-14 Thread Martin Konold
Am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2005 07:38 schrieb Linus Torvalds: Thread Hijacking ahead Hi Linus, thanks for starting a technical discussion to help to solve the issues with the responsiveness of the Linux Desktop. For the near and mid-term future this means an X11 based desktop. Actually I