On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I just gave a try to the Alpha 2 live CD and had to notice that > compositing is > not enabled by default. I think this is a very bad choice as you don't > allow > users to experience the full chances of Kubuntu. This results in the in > general bad screenshots in media as people try in virtual machines (e.g. > [1]). > I would appreciate if this default could be changed. > > The system I tested on is perfectly capable of running OpenGL based desktop > effects (after all it's one of my development systems) and pressing > Alt+Shift+F12 enabled Desktop Effects successfully in the live system. > > I can only assume that Compositing is disabled by default because it used > to > be problematic especially with NVIDIA on live systems. This is no longer > the > case. For one thing the drivers work properly and KWin has a wonderful > driver > feature detection and can enable features based on driver and GPU. Also > there > is nothing to fear even if the driver is broken. KWin disables Compositing > automatically. > > I have not heard of a real problem like an unusable desktop due to > Compositing > in years. > > An additional note: I checked which Qt graphicssystem is used on the live > CD > for KWin and it's native. That is not Qt's default and a pretty bad default > for KWin, we prefer to have the raster system. > > If you have any questions please let me know and I am happy to answer them. > Please keep me in CC as I'm not subscribed to the mailing list. > > -- > Martin Gräßlin > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kubuntu_12.jpg > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/285626 not sure why it uses native though HS
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