On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:24:22 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> said:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:13:47 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:05:15 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > > <ras...@rasterman.com> said: > > > > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:57:58 +0000 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> > > > said: > > > > > > > On Friday 24 Feb 2012 00:21:00 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > > > > > > > you just need xproto + xlibs. > > > > > > > > > > just remember that compositing will be broken for you due to > > > > > your server being old anyway, but e/efl will compile and run > > > > > but compositing may fail (and we will be moving to compositing > > > > > only in future). > > > > > > > > Oops! Won't we have an option to switch it off if we want to? > > > > > > in future - no. for e17 release it'll stay a module, but after that > > > it'll be compositing only. get used to it - i suggest u use it and > > > report bugs/issues. :) > > > > err thats confusing.. let me try again: > > > > in future. not for e17 release. it'll stay a module, but after that > > it'll be compositing only. get used to it - i suggest u use it and > > report bugs/issues. :) > > > > (there's a whole essay i can write up as to why this needs to be done > > - but it's either have a pretty inefficient display path that can do > > both, or an efficient one that does one or the other. right now we > > consume massively more memory than we need to when compositing, and > > we have all kinds of limitations (some like to call them bugs) due to > > having to cram everything into windows when we want content to expand > > beyond them. also not being able to assume efficient compositing > > means we cant have rounded window borders and do other design > > elements that cant be done efficiently non-composited, but can be > > done efficiently, nicely and beautifully when compositing.) > > So would that be the standard E17 comp module, the extras comp-scale > module, or one of the others? comp-scale isnt a compositing module - it just does expose' like window scaling using the comp module canvas :) > Also, would they interfere with 3D applications? I use a 3D virtual > world viewer all the time, and develop them. I've not used composite > yet since I thought they used OpenGL, and might interfere. Guess I'll > have to bite that bullet. lol comp works both in software and gl - you can choose in the config. it should work find ith both but gl should normally give you better performance. gl compositing and gl apps dont conflict - it's meant to work. works for me on nvidia drivers, nouveau and intel drivers. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
