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

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:03:35 -0300 Rodrigo Coacci wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Brian J. Tarricone
> <bjt23 at cornell.edu>wrote:
> 
> > (...)
> >
> > Well, remember, we turned DB off initially back in the end of 2003
> > or so.  A bit has changed since then, and a low-end graphics board
> > *today* might be ok with DB turned on.  Back when I started out as
> > xfdesktop maintainer (early 2004), I rewrote portions of it, and
> > forgot to disable double-buffering initially, and I didn't have any
> > problems on my TNT2 Ultra.  (And when I bought that card back in
> > 1999, it cost more than an entire present-day low-end Intel
> > motherboard with Intel graphics that would still beat the pants of
> > my TNT2U.)
> >
> > If there are *actual problems*, I'd be willing to revisit this, but
> > as far as I'm concerned, this is idle speculation and not worth
> > discussing without some real-world cases of brokenness.
> 
> I mostly agree with you, but would it be too ugly/bad to have at
> least a compile time option to enable/disable DB? Even if the default
> is DB on, at least people/distros with very low end targets just have
> to compile with the correct options (and accept ugly paintings :-) ).
> If it's too messy to do, just forget I mentioned it.

No, I'd rather not give the choice unless there's a demonstrated need.
As I said, this is all pointless speculation.  It's not a problem if no
one has one.

	-brian