Xgl timeframe?

[Dane Mutters]

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