** Branch linked: lp:~vanvugt/mir/document-full-gl-better -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mir in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1420581
Title: [enhancement] Add support for full OpenGL compositing Status in Mir: Fix Committed Status in mir package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: [enhancement] Add support for full OpenGL compositing. libmirserver/platform presently is only compiled to use the "ES" subset of OpenGL. This works for mobile devices and many desktop use cases but not all. There are a few pending reasons to compile for full OpenGL on desktop (and/or switch at runtime!): 1. Qt only understands full OpenGL on desktop. Presently we use a hack that makes it call ES functions pretending to be full OpenGL, but this hack will fail when we support non-Mesa desktop drivers. 2. Proprietary desktop drivers sometimes don't support ES. 3. Proprietary desktop drivers often (last I checked) perform better with full OpenGL. Not sure why, probably just driver maturity. 4. There is evidence (bug 1420574) that ES doesn't work at all on some older chipsets and regular OpenGL is required. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1420581/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
