Then leave it out during dev, but in when releasing. I just don't agree that for example nvidia will fix their drivers just because kde does not work with some, probably older cards. But i know that i can't win that debate. But i just know that such a decision will cause problems.
Am Sonntag, 20. Februar 2011, um 22:19:53 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > On Sunday 20 February 2011 22:11:35 Beat Wolf wrote: > > On this computer, using the binary nvidia drivers, i could enable > > compositing. But due to some nvidia driver bugs, my computer becomes > > slugish very fast, which means compositing is not an option. > > > > i don't think that the x.org environment is stable enough to be able to > > remove a option that lets you work around bugs. > > bugs need to be fixed and not worked around. > > That is exactly one of the reasons why I want to have it disabled. It's > just not an option that something like 4.5 happens ever again! We need to > know problems during development and if devs tend to just turning of > compositing it will happen again. > > > Beat Wolf > > > > Am Sonntag, 20. Februar 2011, um 22:06:24 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > > > On Sunday 20 February 2011 22:00:58 Davide Bettio wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On 02/20/11 21:57, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > > > 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 ;-) > > > > > > > > I can't understand the point about removing enable/disable options. > > > > > > if we don't want to give the user the possibility to disable, we don't > > > need an option to enable/disable. > > > > > > Let's turn the question around: why should the user be able to enable > > > or disable compositing? What would be a valid reason to do so? And > > > keep in mind: with Wayland it will be impossible to turn off > > > compositing, same in GNOME Shell, Unity and Mac OS X (don't know about > > > Windows). > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Plasma-devel mailing list > > Plasma-devel@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
