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Subject:    Re: Re: RFC: Drop Resize Effect
From:       Martin =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gr=E4=DFlin?= <mgraesslin () kde ! org>
Date:       2011-08-24 20:01:46
Message-ID: 1583339.QLDDJ8fPSW () martin-desktop
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On Wednesday 24 August 2011 21:30:29 you wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2011 19:46:09 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > any objections to dropping the resize effect now that we have a working
> > XSync implementation?
> 
> The resize effect deals with the blind resizes (ie. content update is turned 
> off, w/o compositing you get that outline) and thus especially *not* related 
> to the _NET_WM_SYNC_REQUEST at all.
IIRC we (or I) dropped the contentless resize mode.
> 
> FTR: I plan to RR some kind of "hybrid" resize where the SYNC_REQUEST induced 
> lag would be covered by a texture scale to combine high responsiveness and 
> online content update.
> If this will be an acceptable patch, it could easily be extended to apply to 
> the contentless resize (so in a way the effect would become part of the core 
> ;-)
> 
> In general, I'd say we need some sidearm packages for nice-to-have effects, 
> since before nvidia fixed the ARGB pixmap allocation, one could hardly use 
> content update enabled resizes at all :-(
that's of course true (I still remember how shocked I was when I did content update enabled 
resize on nouveau for the first time :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
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