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[Harold Aling]

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:28:33 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>
wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:31:52AM +0000, Harold Aling wrote:
>> * OpenGL support in Xfwm4 -> rendering the desktop + windows on a OpenGL
>> canvas will really boost desktop performance on all machines with OpenGL
>> support (nearly all?). I'm quite impressed with the visual performance
>> boost I get from Compiz, but it's not even close to the quality and
>> consistency Xfwm4 has to offer!
> 
> I proposed this idea, but keep in mind lot of people still doesn't have a
> usable OpenGL X, so keeping render compositing in good shape is important
> too,
> and I don't know how it's doable to have both compositing in one
> application...
> --
> Yves-Alexis

Maybe they can stick with the 4.4 branch of Xfwm4? Ubuntu also has a
fallback to Metacity if Compiz can't run on a system, so maybe if Xfwm4 4.4
can coexist with Xfwm4 4.6, it can use the 'leagacy' window manager as
fallback.


-H-