Re: Re: more thoughts on kwin and window thumbnails in plasma shells

2012-05-16 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 16 May 2012 14:14:51 Marco Martin wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > well, is just that when the world goes into the compositor, the > > > probability of this happening skyrockets ;) > > > > Let's try to get our software working and not thinking about solution

Re: more thoughts on kwin and window thumbnails in plasma shells

2012-05-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 23:25:40 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2012 20:35:01 Marco Martin wrote: > > 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

Re: more thoughts on kwin and window thumbnails in plasma shells

2012-05-16 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > > well, is just that when the world goes into the compositor, the > > probability of this happening skyrockets ;) > > Let's try to get our software working and not thinking about solutions for > the case that our software is buggy. If we allow o

Re: more thoughts on kwin and window thumbnails in plasma shells

2012-05-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 18:45:24 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > 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. texture from pixmap is exactly what

Re: Re: more thoughts on kwin and window thumbnails in plasma shells

2012-05-15 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 15 May 2012 20:35:01 Marco Martin wrote: > 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 Ope

Re: more thoughts on kwin and window thumbnails in plasma shells

2012-05-15 Thread Marco Martin
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

Re: more thoughts on kwin and window thumbnails in plasma shells

2012-05-15 Thread Martin Gräßlin
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.o

more thoughts on kwin and window thumbnails in plasma shells

2012-05-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hi all ... after the last thread where "put plasma-desktop into kwin" came up i looked for the actual pain points we suffer right now. the main one, and honestly the only one i could really find, was the window thumbnail issue. so ... the problem is that when plasma-desktop asks kwin to paint