http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399
Danny Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #8 from Danny Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-02-28 12:16:11 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Any objective argument against that blur, which WORKS on legacy cards?
>
> Hack is not an argument. Beryl worked stable with this "hack".
The term "hack" does not necessarily mean that the software crashes ten times a
day or leaks gigabytes of memory. It can also denote code that is inefficient
and/or that's hard to maintain and/or that causes strange side effects.
The latter two are the case in blurfx. blurfx is a huge piece of code (> 100kB)
that's hard to maintain in the long run (because it used quite a bit of hackish
code, you can trust Dennis here - he was the one who wrote it after all) and it
caused quite a few of side effects, especially with screen transformations
(e.g. cube rotation) and window animations. Besides that, it also was a big CPU
hog (try enabling blur for transformed windows, move around a window and watch
your CPU meter).
Given all these facts, it was decided to drop it and make a clean start. This
was not to leave users behind, but just to have blur code that works now and is
maintainable in the future. That's also why Dennis stated that the old legacy
blur won't be imported into Compiz' blur plugin.
> If you couldn't support this, please help Sam with basicblur plugin:
> http://gitweb.opencompositing.org/?p=users/smspillaz/basicblur;a=summary .
We certainly support him whenever he has questions, but we can't support him to
a degree where we start writing all the code ;-)
Please note that Compiz plugins not necessarily need to reside in the
repositories of Compiz or Compiz Fusion - if anyone decides to pick up blurfx
and adapt it to Compiz and/or clean it up, that's perfectly fine with us. If
this person has questions, we're all ears. But the initiative won't come from
us - somebody else needs to start to work on that.
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