On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:55:27PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> e17 just thrw a few dumb large textures (big triangle pairs to make rects).
> e18
> + throws much more geometry at gl. all the text in e (titlebars, menus, shelf)
> is renderd as text. it uses less memory and is actually far more flexible and
> powerful, and it works fine if you aren't re-rendering the bits you don't need
> to.
>
> i have an intel laptop, intel desktop, nvidia desktop, only accel-less laptop,
> another intel laptop, another nvidia laptop (nouveau)... i know of other
> drivers. i have far more than just one machine.
>
> if you don't have extensions to partial-render, then it full renders. full
> rendering is far more in e19 vs e17. that's not going to change any time soon.
> more complex gadgets will cost more. text with soft drop shadows or glows will
> cost a lot more. they don't get held in memory as a texture/pixmap - they get
> generated on the fly.
I understand that, but would it make sense to have an e config option
for "less bling, more battery" that one could switch to by sending a
command from e from ACPI?
Basically I'd want e18/e19 to become as basic CPU-wise as twm if I'm on
batteries and not moving windows around.
Would that be possible? :)
Thanks,
Marc
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