[ANNOUNCE] libdrm 2.4.7

2009-04-09 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Ok, here's a quick follow on release to 2.4.6 to fix an embarrasing build problem in the test suite when libudev is not available. Kristian Dave Airlie (1): drm: fix test makefile Kristian Høgsberg (3): test: Makefile.am grammar nazi test: Avoid recursive dependency in

Re: xorg-server-1.5.3 + xf86-video-intel-2.6.3 is slow at 2D

2009-04-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 22:09 +0300, Mihai Donțu wrote: Until yesterday, I was using the xorg server 1.3.0. I was very satisfied with it, but my distribution (Gentoo) moved 1.5.3 into stable and I had to upgrade. The problem that is most annoying to me is that everything in konsole (KDE's

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Bill Crawford
On 04/08/2009 05:00 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: ... If only the latest release is API-stable, by definition it's not stable. On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:34:48PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: ... This cannot be deduced from that line. You need to review your math. On Wednesday 08 April 2009

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thursday 09 April 2009 10:39:47 Alan Cox wrote: if someone massively resizes a window with backing store (remembering it can be mostly offscreen) your X server explodes. Remind us why turning it on for all windows all the time (Composite) is better than for one window? ;o) There

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Daniel Stone wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:52:12PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:34:48PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 04/08/2009 05:24 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: If only the latest release is API-stable, by definition it's not stable. This

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:14:21AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Bill Crawford wrote: It makes perfect sense. He's saying that (f(A) ⊢ g(B)) ⊬ (¬f(A) ⊢ ¬g(B)), where A is release, f is latest, B is API and g is stable ;o) The point is not that it has to be the latest

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Cox
if someone massively resizes a window with backing store (remembering it can be mostly offscreen) your X server explodes. Remind us why turning it on for all windows all the time (Composite) is better than for one window? ;o) There is nothing in composite that requires you redirect

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 21:28:47 Alan Cox wrote: Backing store has long been off by default in Xfree/Xorg. Fundamentally its a dumb design issue in the concept of backing store - it means the server has to consume huge amounts of memory keeping copies of stuff and if someone massively

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:22:45 +1000 Torgeir Veimo torg...@pobox.com wrote: 2009/4/9 Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk For proving fancy anti-aliasing isn't just for new apps or integrating it into old ones, KeithP's rework of twm with render is glorious... Is there a screenshot

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Cox
He might have. His response doesn't contain any useful information. I think you are confusing not containing information with not understanding it tie-in on the web-page, that's problematic since it's only the portion of the API which has been unchanging for an extended period of time that

TWM with translucent menus (was Doc?)

2009-04-09 Thread Pat Kane
Hey Tom, Have you seen this version of TWM with translucent windows used for menus ? http://keithp.com/~keithp/render/ On 4/9/09, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:22:45 +1000 Torgeir Veimo torg...@pobox.com wrote: 2009/4/9 Alan Cox

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:35:32PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:22:45 +1000 Torgeir Veimo torg...@pobox.com wrote: 2009/4/9 Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk For proving fancy anti-aliasing isn't just for new apps or integrating it into old ones, KeithP's rework of

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Cox
That's http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/ Nice pictures. I also like how they demonstrate anti-aliased fonts are unusable at small sizes. Each to their own, I know which I find easier to read and I know what extensive studies say people prefer as well. Also be careful with the images to view

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:31:18AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: If any of the words I have used are too long please ask for help. In-ter-fwhat? Oh, fuck it, I'll go get a beer instead. Seriously, let's go back to that sentence again: Please download one of the latest releases in order to get an

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:05:51PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Each to their own, I know which I find easier to read and I know what extensive studies say people prefer as well. To each their own indeed. Also be careful with the images to view them full size - if your browser is scaling them

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Cox
= there can't be that many applications using it if it was moving all the time So the fact there are lots of applications using it should have told you that your interpretations were suspect = there can't have been much testing by real applications at that point See above. Pretty much the

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-radeonhd 1.2.5 Release

2009-04-09 Thread Matthias Hopf
Announcing the 1.2.5 Release of the xf86-video-radeonhd driver. RadeonHD is the X.org X11 driver for AMD GPG (ATI) r5xx/r6xx/r7xx chipsets. The development is driven by Novell and AMD at the time of writing, together with a community of open source developers around this driver. AMD provides free

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:25:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: = there can't be that many applications using it if it was moving all the time So the fact there are lots of applications using it should have told you that your interpretations were suspect If the cairo website gives a list of

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
If you look at our paper here: http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2003/ You'll discover that the font metadata turned out to be as large as the glyphs actually used. And client side fonts with server caching therefore turns out to be a wash as far as bits transferred in practice, while

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Cox
I've always wondered why. It makes no sense. The network-oriented nature of X means you should do your best to send as little data as possible, and prerendered pixmaps are nowhere near minimal. Why isn't fontconfig/xft and even pango in the server where it seems to belong? It turns out to

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 09:31:01 09.04.2009 UTC-04 when j...@freedesktop.org did gyre and gimble: JG So the X11 core font design is fundamentally a mistake, which we JG fixed. Given this topic resurfaced again, I'd like to ask the related question: core X fonts had the feature of being controlled by

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 04/09/2009 09:38 AM, Olivier Galibert wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:25:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: = there can't be that many applications using it if it was moving all the time So the fact there are lots of applications using it should have told you that your interpretations were

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 20:52 +0700, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 09:31:01 09.04.2009 UTC-04 when j...@freedesktop.org did gyre and gimble: JG So the X11 core font design is fundamentally a mistake, which we JG fixed. Given this topic resurfaced again, I'd like to ask the

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 04/09/2009 09:52 AM, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 09:31:01 09.04.2009 UTC-04 when j...@freedesktop.org did gyre and gimble: JG So the X11 core font design is fundamentally a mistake, which we JG fixed. Given this topic resurfaced again, I'd like to ask the related

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:31:01AM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: If you look at our paper here: http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2003/ You'll discover that the font metadata turned out to be as large as the glyphs actually used. And client side fonts with server caching therefore turns

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 04/09/2009 09:59 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: Note, however, that our concept of size of fonts is fundamentally broken: the physical size in pixels of some physical size is *very* seldom what you actually want; what you really want is the size of a font in terms of angle: the physical size at

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 10:00:44 09.04.2009 UTC-04 when beh...@behdad.org did gyre and gimble: BE Xft and cairo have (shared) XRDB keys for antialiasing and other BE stuff, but not dpi. GTK+ uses XSETTINGS for those as well as DPI, BE and those are per-screen. gnome-settings-daemon populates them

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 04/09/2009 10:03 AM, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 10:00:44 09.04.2009 UTC-04 when beh...@behdad.org did gyre and gimble: BE Xft and cairo have (shared) XRDB keys for antialiasing and other BE stuff, but not dpi. GTK+ uses XSETTINGS for those as well as DPI, BE and

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Tomas Carnecky
On Apr 9, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 04/09/2009 09:59 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: The viewer is at a very different distance depending on whether the application is on a PDA a foot from your eyes, several feet for a desktop, and across the room for a projector. Just define DPI

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-radeonhd 1.2.5 Release

2009-04-09 Thread Klaus Dittrich
Matthias Hopf schrieb: Announcing the 1.2.5 Release of the xf86-video-radeonhd driver. RadeonHD is the X.org X11 driver for AMD GPG (ATI) r5xx/r6xx/r7xx chipsets. The development is driven by Novell and AMD at the time of writing, together with a community of open source developers around

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I didn't flame him. Certainly didn't mean to do that. I just said that his Go back and read the thread, in order, before continuing. awai -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 16:01 +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:31:01AM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: If you look at our paper here: http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2003/ You'll discover that the font metadata turned out to be as large as the glyphs actually

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Cox
Is there equivalent functionality with Xft? And whose responsibility it is now, if this functionality is not here: applications, toolkits or something else? Xft provides the DPI information, the desktop permits the DPI to be configured providing some muppet hasn't decided that is too

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
My point is different: DPI by itself isn't usually interesting: you also need the distance from the screen to understand what size font makes sense. Very seldom do you actually want what you see is what you get on a piece of paper I can't read a piece of paper across the room if the text is

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 04/09/2009 10:37 AM, Alan Cox wrote: In the perfect world the monitor would report the DPI reliably to the Xserver which would adopt it and everything would just work. Unfortunately monitors report rather varied things, the dominant OS product appears to ignore the monitor value entirely

Re: PseudoColor and DirectColor visuals (was Re: Documentation?)

2009-04-09 Thread Patrick O'Donnell
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 01:14:28 +0200 From: Olivier Galibert galib...@pobox.com On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:00:02PM -0400, Patrick O'Donnell wrote: Speaking of which -- the applications I'm maintaining are wedded to using a writable color map, which has always been PseudoColor, which, as you

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:48 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 04/09/2009 10:37 AM, Alan Cox wrote: In the perfect world the monitor would report the DPI reliably to the Xserver which would adopt it and everything would just work. Unfortunately monitors report rather varied things, the

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 04/09/2009 10:55 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:48 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 04/09/2009 10:37 AM, Alan Cox wrote: In the perfect world the monitor would report the DPI reliably to the Xserver which would adopt it and everything would just work. Unfortunately

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:58 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 04/09/2009 10:55 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:48 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 04/09/2009 10:37 AM, Alan Cox wrote: In the perfect world the monitor would report the DPI reliably to the Xserver which would

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 04/09/2009 11:10 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: Since when you are doing certain few applications (actual WSIWYG layout, or the use of the screen as a ruler, which we do on OLPC), you really do want the actual DPI; it's just we *also* need to know the typical viewing distance. You have a very

Re: PseudoColor and DirectColor visuals (was Re: Documentation?)

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Harris
Patrick O'Donnell wrote: Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:36:29 -0700 From: Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com Are there any systems in which you can write a million colors to a PsuedoColor colormap? I've not often seen PseudoColor supporting more than 8-bit/256 colors in the real world.

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Cox
And in the past, we never had the viewing distance in X11's design: our presumption was then always desktop monitors, viewed at the usual desktop distance). It is entirely missing from the core protocol. One problem is that this is application dependant. I will be at normal viewing distance

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 16:20 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: And in the past, we never had the viewing distance in X11's design: our presumption was then always desktop monitors, viewed at the usual desktop distance). It is entirely missing from the core protocol. One problem is that this is

Re: PseudoColor and DirectColor visuals (was Re: Documentation?)

2009-04-09 Thread Patrick O'Donnell
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:17:25 -0400 From: Peter Harris phar...@opentext.com Patrick O'Donnell wrote: (Supporting TrueColor, alas, would be a royal pain, given the design of the apps.) ... use an OpenGL fragment shader to do the PseudoColor = TrueColor translation at CopyArea[1] time. ...

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:29 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: Someday somehow I'll try to do some tests to check whether that's really true with a better optimized protocol, because right now everything that uses xft over a ssh tunnel is an horrible pain in the ass, I don't know what problem

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 18:29 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:29 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: Someday somehow I'll try to do some tests to check whether that's really true with a better optimized protocol, because right now everything that uses xft over a ssh tunnel is an

Re: PseudoColor and DirectColor visuals (was Re: Documentation?)

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Harris
Patrick O'Donnell wrote: The RENDER extension already has mechanisms for copying PseudoColor pixmaps to TrueColor displays, but it does not allow you to use your own colormap. This sounds a bit more promising, though. I guess I'll have to read up on RENDER. Could you clarify it does not

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:46:57PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: That is downright strange. Are you comparing the same application? or different applications? GTK may be doing something really stupid internally, that has nothing to do with fonts, but is related to the latency. I've suspected as

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 12:46 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 18:29 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:29 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: Someday somehow I'll try to do some tests to check whether that's really true with a better optimized protocol, because right

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-radeonhd 1.2.5 Release

2009-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Klaus Dittrich wrote: Matthias Hopf schrieb: Announcing the 1.2.5 Release of the xf86-video-radeonhd driver. RadeonHD is the X.org X11 driver for AMD GPG (ATI) r5xx/r6xx/r7xx chipsets. The development is driven by Novell and AMD at the time of writing, together with

Re: [RFC] glx: fix DRI2 memory leak

2009-04-09 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:21:51AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: In trying to track down the memory leak in 20704, I found that the DRI2 drawable destroy routine doesn't seem to get called when new drawables are created and old ones destroyed (as in the glViewport case in the bug). Ok, sorry for

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-radeonhd 1.2.5 Release

2009-04-09 Thread Alex Deucher
On 4/9/09, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Thursday 09 April 2009, Klaus Dittrich wrote: Matthias Hopf schrieb: Announcing the 1.2.5 Release of the xf86-video-radeonhd driver. RadeonHD is the X.org X11 driver for AMD GPG (ATI) r5xx/r6xx/r7xx chipsets. The development

RE: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread McDonald, Michael-p7438c
-Original Message- From: xorg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:xorg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Jim Gettys Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:11 AM To: Behdad Esfahbod Cc: Victor Wagner; x...@freedesktop.org Subject: Re: Documentation? We've been missing one

RE: xf86-video-intel SDVO TV xrandr support for TV_FORMAT

2009-04-09 Thread Jacques, Hugo
-Original Message- From: Zhenyu Wang [mailto:zhenyu.z.w...@intel.com] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 01:16 To: Jacques, Hugo Cc: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: xf86-video-intel SDVO TV xrandr support for TV_FORMAT On 2009.04.08 02:44:44 +0800, Jacques, Hugo wrote: Hi

xrandr issues

2009-04-09 Thread Sriram V
Hi, I am using xorg xserver. i am using a OMAP based board. My board is a 640x480 LCD with touch screen support. I am trying to rotate the display using xrandr. But xrandr returns error. I am also unable to run xtscal. Output of my commands are: r...@omap3:~# xrandr -q Screen

RE: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 11:30 -0700, McDonald, Michael-p7438c wrote: By the same argument, should that missing one value also be applyable to Coordinates and Dimensions also? I would think a zero width line would have the same visibility issues as a 8 point font. Yeah, zero width lines were

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
The right way to attack this problem is, when you identify a broken GTK application, get a copy of xscope (or whatever it is called these days), and interpose it between the application and the high latency line, and get a X protocol trace. That would make it easy to locate the offending

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Glynn Clements
Jim Gettys wrote: Note, however, that our concept of size of fonts is fundamentally broken: the physical size in pixels of some physical size is *very* seldom what you actually want; what you really want is the size of a font in terms of angle: the physical size at some distance. As well as

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Simon Thum
This cannot be deduced from that line. You need to review your math. On Wednesday 08 April 2009 22:52:12 Thomas Dickey wrote: Behdad's comment doesn't make sense in English. (Perhaps someone can help Behdad with that - or else explain to him what API-stable might mean). It makes perfect

RE: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread McDonald, Michael-p7438c
-Original Message- From: xorg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:xorg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Jim Gettys Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 11:54 AM To: McDonald, Michael-p7438c Cc: x...@freedesktop.org Subject: RE: Documentation? Would that we got a fresh

Re: xrandr issues

2009-04-09 Thread Sriram V
Hi, As an additional input, my configure options are: xorg-server-1.5.3/configure --build=i686-linux --host=arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi --target=arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr --exec_prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --datadir=/usr/share

[Intel] Resolution higher than native on LVDS

2009-04-09 Thread Sven Barth
Hello together! I'm using an UMPC with a display that has 800x480 as its native resolution. On Vista I'm also able to set 1024x600 and two other higher-than-native resolutions (all three scaled down, not panning) and now I want to know if this is also possible with the Intel driver on Linux.

RE: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 12:16 -0700, McDonald, Michael-p7438c wrote: Would that we got a fresh slate (and all new applications); a design done today would be very different than what we did in 1986. That's undoubtable true since we like to think we learn from past mistakes. Recurring

Re: PseudoColor and DirectColor visuals (was Re: Documentation?)

2009-04-09 Thread Glynn Clements
Patrick O'Donnell wrote: So much stuff breaks with a DirectColor visual that no-one ever uses one. By this, I presume you mean that many clients fail to support DirectColor correctly, (or fail to match visuals correctly) so they break? Or are you referring to server support for

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
latest-releases tie-in on the web-page, that's problematic since it's only the portion of the API which has been unchanging for an extended period of time that would be (in the normal sense of the word) stable. I guess one keeps something stable exactly because it wasn't at some point. I'd

Virtual scrolling/panning

2009-04-09 Thread Craig White
Fedora 11 Beta (xrandr 1.3 - yeah!) If I manually execute the command... xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x600 --panning 1280x1024 I sort of get what I want...well, the background is tiled but my tiny 1024x600 screen becomes usable with panning and I can't understand why I can't achieve this

luit forked?

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Our i18n team recently fixed a bug in luit and asked me to help upstream it - while doing so, I found there's actually two luit forks out there - one maintained with xterm and one maintained with the rest of the Xorg modules: http://invisible-island.net/luit/luit.html

Re: Changing Xorg-Configuration on the fly

2009-04-09 Thread Aaron Plattner
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:17:52AM -0700, Leif Bergerhoff wrote: Remi Cardona wrote: Unless you're using the closed nVidia driver, the xrandr tool will do _exactly_ what you're looking for. Take a look at man xrandr, especially the --pos option. I don't think this is true. The --pos

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Patrick O'Donnell
From: Jim Gettys j...@freedesktop.org Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:25:26 -0400 But I for one think you guys did one hell of a good job coming up with X11. There are a lot more things right with it than there are wrong. Most of those 20 year old programs do still work. You can't say that about a

RE: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 13:49 -0700, McDonald, Michael-p7438c wrote: I wasn't refering to backing store or save unders or any other feature specificly. I was refering to MY impression of what I perceive as the philosophy of the new set of developers. I don't have the same impression, at

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Gettys
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 19:08 -0400, Patrick O'Donnell wrote: We did fix it, with composite, in a way better than before. You don't have to run a compositing manager that does anything visual at all; you don't have to have one iota of transparency, drop shadows, or even anti-aliased fonts.

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Harris
Patrick O'Donnell wrote: From: Jim Gettys j...@freedesktop.org Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:25:26 -0400 We did fix it, with composite, in a way better than before. You don't have to run a compositing manager that does anything visual at all; you don't have to have one iota of transparency,