[ot] Xgl and Compiz WM

[Erik Harrison]

On 2/8/06, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Harold Aling wrote:
> > Yeah, another really offtopic topic!
> >
> > Anybody seen this already?
> > http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2006/Feb-07-1.html (especially the videos!)
> >
> > Is XFWM4 going to hop on the Xgl train? (OpenGL based window drawing)
>
> I hope not.  Its a train speeding towards a cliff.  There's _nothing_ that
> Xgl offers that cannot be accomplished in Xorg right now.

First off, Xgl doesn't provide anything that Xorg doesn't provide to
the end user you are right. However, that simply means that Xfwm4
-can't- get on the "Xgl train". There is no train to get on. Xfwm has
a compositing manager which performs it's little bits of eye candy -
Compiz provides a whole lot more eye candy. They're both using the
same interface to the X server.

That said, I think that Xgl is anything but a train.cliff_wrecked. The
fact that Xgl provides the same things as Xorg is a -feature-. They're
both X servers! Of course they're the same. The difference is the
driver and acceleration architecture. It seems to me that Xgl is
vastly superior to Exa in this regard (although I'd still like to see
a nice 2D fallback for old cards in Xgl....). I think we'll see a
merge of Xgl into Xorg in the next year.

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