Compositor being enabled by default in Gentoo.

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Brad

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 19:35 -0500, Brad Cowan wrote:
> I'm the only maintainer, and I'll remove it no problem, but honestly
> it's not going to change peoples bug reports.  The people who want to
> use the compositor have to know what they are doing (at least google it)
> to turn it on in their xorg config.  You advertise this feature and even
> if experimental, people will use it.

Compositor is slow unless you have a render performed in hw, and AFAIK,
only ATI and NVidia with closed source drivers do can do that. What's
the point of making Xfce slow when advertising it as a "lightweight"
desktop environment?

>   I vote to just close the bugs like
> you did if you don't want to mess with them. How about I just add a big
> fat warning at the end saying that this is an experimental feature and
> not to bother filing bugs upstream? 

I do support the compositor (see http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?
id=694)
when I can actually reproduce the problem on one my systems.

Cheers,
Olivier.