[Xfce4-commits] r27940 - xfdesktop/trunk/src

[Fabian Nowak]

> > 
> > Today, with compositing, the amount of pixmap memory used has
> > increased a lot so I guess the driver was modified to support larger
> > amount of pixmaps. Still, we may still have the problem with lower end
> > video cards, dunno.
> 
> Ah, I see.  Well, double buffering fixes a lot of flicker/repaint
> issues with the icon view -- not sure if they're my fault and the
> double buffering is just hiding bugs, but...  we'll see if people
> complain, I guess.

Considering all my rather old PCs with TNT2, GeForce2, at least I would
be very happy to find an option for switching double-buffering off,
which could have a well-describing tooltip on which systems it might
make sense trying to switch DB off, i.e. architecture of the graphics
board and amount of video memory.

Thinking of 3rd and 2nd world countries, I think you can't assume people
running Xfce to have good graphics boards -- Xfce might be their choice
as desktop system just because of the anciently low hardware
requirements and smooth behaviour on older systems.

Just my 2 cents

Fabian