On Sunday 20 February 2011 20:51:53 Davide Bettio wrote: > Hi, > > On 02/20/11 13:38, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > sending this to both Plasma and KWin as the idea affects the complete > > workspace. > > > > Since 4.2 we have enabled OpenGL based compositing by default and I was > > wondering if in 4.7 we should go the next step: disabling the possibility > > to turn compositing off if supported. > > > > With Mesa 7.10 it seems that the driver problems (Mesa 7.8) which hit us > > in 4.5 are finally gone and our new compositor is performing much, much > > better than the one we have in 4.6. This means from a performance > > perspective I am optimistic that we can go such a way. > > > > This would imply the following changes > > * Remove the enable checkbox in the compositing KCM > > * Remove the suspend/resume compositing button in the same KCM > > * Remove the "functionality checks" - the heuristic is rather useless > > anyway * Disable unredirect fullscreen windows by default > > I can't see your pros about removing it. Is it your goal to improve > effects KCM usability? No, while the KCM sucks it will still suck after those three options have been removed. It needs a proper redesign, but that is out of the scope of this thread ;-)
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