From kwin Wed Oct 04 21:14:13 2006 From: Eike Hein Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:14:13 +0000 To: kwin Subject: Re: Compositing status Message-Id: <45242425.3050308 () eikehein ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kwin&m=115999647204760 Sascha Hlusiak wrote: >> any news on %subject% ? I wouldn't expect having a very basic OpenGL >> compositor would be that much work. What is the problem, lack of time, some >> problem with OpenGL, some problem with KWin, something I could help with? > > Wouldn't it a good idea to actually use the beryl composite manager, > instead of creating another one? Afaik Beryl is a fork of compiz. Compiz is not only a composition manager, but also a window manager, and an immature one at that. It's also a window manager with a widely different set of capabilities than kwin, so initially it would be a regression. Writing plugins for beryl/compiz to implement kwin's abilities in it would probably be more work than adding composition management to kwin, and in any case you'd suffer from the problem of trading in a proven, tested codebase for a new and immature one. In addition to the above, the technical quality of beryl specifically is doubtful. David Reveman, the principal author of compiz, has recently claimed that beryl is made up of code that does not meet the quality standards of compiz[1]. That said, looking at what can be lifted and learned from compiz/beryl is certainly a good idea, and I bet Lubos & gang have done and are doing just that. 1 = http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2006-September/000487.html -- Regards, Eike Hein, hein@kde.org _______________________________________________ Kwin mailing list Kwin@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kwin