Re: client side decorations

2011-07-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
use signals. Really ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169

Re: Finishing the network protocol

2011-04-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
fcount will take care of the rest). cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 i

Re: Finishing the network protocol

2011-04-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
;goes away" mean here ? Something like switching GPUs (eg. for power saving) ? cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287

Re: What's wrong with wayland?

2011-04-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
scanout and clientside conversation by itself. Let's summarize it: wayland just composites virtual screens / surfaces (now 3D, instead of just 2D like original X did). What's the big difference to directfb's fusion ? cu -- -----------

Re: HPC (High Performance Compute) Architecture

2011-04-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
it might be desirable to have it run faster. Plan 9 w/ xcpu and 8 1/2 ? ;-o cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq:

Re: What's wrong with wayland?

2011-04-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
g point. > > This is indeed the kind of remoting that could be achieved at a toolkit level. Yes, but it still leaves the big bandwith/latency problems, most notably the need for client-side repainting still in place. cu -- -

Re: Type safety of protocol calls

2011-02-20 Thread Enrico Weigelt
nup purposes (eg. it enforced you to write parameter types before the parameter names, and other things I'd consider much cleaner). This approach might turn out as a fine QM tool ... cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, met

Re: Some of my thoughts on input for wayland

2011-02-20 Thread Enrico Weigelt
compositor ? (IOW: making it a fileserver). cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---

Re: Running on bare hardware

2011-02-20 Thread Enrico Weigelt
/dev/dri/version`) cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427

Re: What's wrong with wayland?

2011-02-20 Thread Enrico Weigelt
aw-to-buffer method. What about graphics devices that don't support it ? Software rendering ? cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mo

Re: What's wrong with wayland?

2011-02-20 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ose: it operates on screen level. It has no idea windows, server-side resource objects, etc. Simply lacks this information. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: we

Re: Some of my thoughts on input for wayland

2011-01-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
al _display_ server, but the one who actually handles window positioning/sizing). cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile:

Re: Some of my thoughts on input for wayland

2011-01-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
l input events are then mapped by the compositor to the appropriate applications, dependent on current focus, etc. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig.

Re: Some of my thoughts on input for wayland

2011-01-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
anges on the file, much > like the way Compiz does so. Please keep in mind that inotify only works (reliably) on local (and *maybe* a few remote) filesystems. I'd rather suggest adding a little 9P fileserver to the compositor, where such configurations can be directly written in. cu --