On 5/3/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<quote who="Erik de Castro Lopo">
> > I've been browsing around in the compiz.net forums and have become
> > interested in helping hack on compiz/xgl.
>
> Holy shit. Thats what I call jumping in at the deep end. X servers are
> particularly difficult to hack on and debug.
Wasn't thinking about Xgl itself; more in the realm of compiz & pretties :)
Compiz would be easier - it's the compositing manager. Xgl is probably not
very interesting to you, as it's just infrastructure for the fun stuff...
That is indeed where I was looking at. Xgl's behind most of what
compiz does, though, so I imagine I'd need to know at least a little
bit about it :) But like I said, I'm completely new to the WM/X scene;
I just wanna make some pretties :)
> > However, I wouldn't have a clue where to start on the codebase -
>
> Well without a specific task in mind starting is *very* difficult. So
> first step is finding a feature you want to add or a bug you want to fix.
> Or maybe just do a code audit and clean up the cruft.
Definitely start with a goal.
There's a big list of cool unimplemented stuff over here:
http://compiz.net/viewtopic.php?id=273 some definitely easier than
others.
> > (Do we have any Xgl/compiz hackers here in Sydney?)
>
> None that I know of. Yet.
Dave Airlie knows X backwards, but is probably less interested in the cool
effects stuff (Compiz) than drivers and infrastructure. Perhaps we could
invite him to do a talk about everything going on in X land (comparisons
between AIGLX and Xgl would probably be of interest, if you're interested in
working on cool effects stuff). Dave spoke at linux.conf.au this year too.
I would like to know more about AIGLX vs. Xgl, yes - good idea :)
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