On Sunday 20 February 2011 13:38:40 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.
I think I agree with this, provided that KWin is smart enough to detect when compositing won't be supported. BTW, I think this implies I should trash the disable compositing action in powerdevil for 4.7, isn't it? (I would be glad to do that) > > 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 would keep > * the shortcut to suspend compositing > * the dbus call to toggle compositing (might be useful for games and so on) > > I am unsure about keeping respect to the Compositing/Enabled config option. > I would say we do not honor it in development mode, but honor it again in > the branch. This way users could still disable it if something goes bad. > > For development it's better to have the option not honored to get bugs > reported ;-) > > If compositing is not supported, it will not try to enable it, so no > problem for our old, old, old users. (Though I doubt Plasma is of any use > in a system not supporting OpenGL). > > What do you think about this idea? > > Cheers > Martin -- ------------------- Dario Freddi KDE Developer GPG Key Signature: 511A9A3B
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