"Icon translucency during drag-n-drop should be supported even on non-compositing WMs." We cannot do that. We need a compositor to use the RGBA colormap for the dragged icon so that we can make it partially transparent. Historically, Nautilus had code that tried a different path towards this end, but the X server was never able to keep up, making it incredibly slow and that code path would be even more unreasonable for people without hardware accelerated servers than the current approach.
"Another alternative would be to see this bug as a request for compositing turned on by default in Ubuntu's Metacity." Metacity's compositor is very young, it's slower than the competition due to using XRender instead of OpenGL (though it is still very reasonable; it performs quite well on my hardware at least) and is still considered experimental. You should file the video bug against Metacity's compositor upstream, though it may be a problem with your video card and/or drivers. The Metacity developers would know better than I would for certain on this, though. On the other hand, Ubuntu already ships with Compiz turned on by default whenever possible, making this feature accessible to as many people as possible. I'm not sure how much more we could be doing in this regard. -- Opaque nautilus drag-n-drop for users without HW GL Acceleration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259259 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
