[Desktop_architects] Summits at Desktop Developers
Conferencein Ottawa
Aaron J. Seigo
aseigo at kde.org
Tue Mar 7 01:22:11 PST 2006
On Monday 06 March 2006 15:37, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 16:15 -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > honestly, i don't even think the X.org devs who are doing this work have
> > much of an idea on what app devs want out of it
>
> Mostly these effects shouldn't impact the application at all. As an
well, there are 2 kinds of apps:
the kind of app that it really matters for (e.g. desktop / panel / window
mnanager)
and the sort it doesn't (everything else, which should, in a perfect world,
just assume things are Good)
> -- windows with per-pixel alpha translucency (I've heard this is
> possible, I probably just need to find documentation)
cf: argb
> -- synchronizing window updates with the compositing manager, especially
> during window resizing (if this is fully automatic already, great)
this happens below the app layer.
> -- XRENDER extensions for accelerated SVG-style filters
as i understand it, already exists.
> -- fast XRENDER (especially fast subpixel-AA text)
> -- fast XRENDER
=) talk to hardware vendors?
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Aaron J. Seigo
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Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)
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