On Sunday 20 February 2011 23:03:10 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Sunday 20 February 2011 22:50:01 Dario Freddi wrote: > > 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) > > I thought it was already trashed in 4.6 or was it just disabled by default? > > The correct answer to the question whether turning off compositing saves > battery or not is probably: it depends. Personally I think that switching > off compositing and all the stuff implied with it (Plasma rescaling SVGs, > Oxygen adjusting...) is worse than keeping it on.
After a series of mails, we decided to switch it off by default :) in 4.7 I'll move the action away > > > > 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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