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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: plasma and new shadow mess
From:       Fredrik =?iso-8859-15?q?H=F6glund?= <fredrik () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-01-07 14:55:59
Message-ID: 201301071555.59559.fredrik () kde ! org
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On Monday 07 January 2013, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > handing over the pixmap id intenrally to the shadow system is exactly what
> > we do in plasma. granted, it is outside of kwin and we're doing this with
> > an xatom ... but this is precisely how plasma is doing it now: we rely on
> > kwin (or another window manager) to paint the shadows using pixmaps we hand
> > over by id.
> Yeah well, I don't want a roundtrip to X just to set an information which we 
> have internally already available. For KWin we need a better approach.

It actually adds 25 roundtrips per window, including 8 image transfers
from the X server.

Fredrik

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