Re: Modernizing the display loop [try 2]

2011-12-17 Thread Benjamin Otte
Owen Taylor redhat.com> writes: > My basic idea is to have a "Window Clock" object that serves as the > central point of timing coordination for each toplevel window. > Why is this a property of a window? Aren't clocks specific to a screen/display? >From the message you sent to wm-spec list it

Re: Modernizing the display loop [try 2]

2011-12-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
it's possible something in here is useful: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-October/msg4.html Havoc ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: Modernizing the display loop [try 2]

2011-12-14 Thread William Swanson
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: > The other thing we might want to do here is add in the ability to > get the time for a clock - say: > >  guint64 gdk_window_clock_get_time() > > which would return a monotonically increasing time for the clock > (in microseconds?) This is a g

Modernizing the display loop [try 2]

2011-12-12 Thread Owen Taylor
My current large-scale project is to get proper coordination between the application and window system for timing; part of this is defining a protocol between application/toolkit and compositor - see: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2011-October/msg6.html but to make it work for