Xgl timeframe?
Dane Mutters
dmutters at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 06:13:07 GMT 2006
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 09:54 pm, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 02:14:44PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 11:19 -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
> > > On 2/11/06, Lionel Dricot (aka Ploum) <zeploum at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > - Does it have blink-blink-translucent window ?
> > >
> > > I don't care one bit about the translucency, but I do care a lot about
> > > eliminating redraw. Drag a window around on top of another window to
> > > see what I'm talking about. It's really awful the way X works now.
> >
> > THANK YOU! Until we fix that, Windows users will consider Linux a joke.
>
> I have heard this claim made for a very wide variety of pet features over
> the years, none of which have turned out to be the "magic bullet" that
> converts the rest of the world to Linux when it is implemented. Meanwhile,
> studies continue to show that Linux market share is growing steadily.
>
> One interpretation of the available evidence would be that different users
> have different priorities when it comes to their software. ;-)
>
> --
> - mdz
I have to agree with mdz here. Everybody has a different point that their
"Linux conversion" hinges upon. Nevertheless, it the grand scheme of things
a little (or a lot of) redraw isn't as big a deal to most people as general
user-friendliness. If it can be fixed without having to completely rewrite
X, then great, otherwise, I think that this discussion is better suited for a
forum on x.org. Perhaps a patch that allows X to use hardware acceleration
if available might be a middle ground? I'm not really a programmer, but I'm
sure somebody else in this forum could tell us how realistic that is for
having 9 (?) weeks left in the release cycle.
--Dane
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