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I can survive keeping switching Compiz on and off every time I want to watch a video. But that way Linux will never gain market share. If I were a (big) computer company, I'd keep shipping Window$ preinstalled.
Two features are now very important to ship Linux as "dumb user desktop" (in graphic domain, at least):- kernel mode setting: stability, suspend/stand-by working without praises;
- DRI2: flawless direct rendering in a composited environoment.
Seen the DRI2 delay, I think ATI should provide some workaround ASAP, as already NVidia does from a long time.
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Originally posted by meden View PostSeen the DRI2 delay, I think ATI should provide some workaround ASAP, as already NVidia does from a long time.
It is not a simple task to add these two things to a driver as can clearly be seen by the current debacle. Asking ati to provide their own might take even longer than waiting for dri2.
besides I don't get what the big deal is with having videos mapped nicely to a compiz cube. Sure it is neat (and was things that made me go wow when compiz first came out) but even with nvidia there are downsides e.g. running xv with an opengl compositor does not vsync xv also I have noticed that with compositing enabled the video quality is reduced (besides the vsync issue).Last edited by _txf_; 05 August 2008, 07:57 AM.
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immudium, I don't really see a promise in that statement. He may just end up learning C and try to help out, then find that he shouldn't be b_tching.
_txf_ I realize you are trying to say it isn't just thrown together, but isn't why you describe exactly that, a work _around_ limitations of X?.
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Originally posted by immudium View PostCareful about those empty promises. We already have enough amateur C programmers making noise and spewing out vaporware.
That's been going on since the dawn of PC's. If places like source forge would actually clean house of dead / non-existant projects then it would making searching for crap alot easier. On that note I really wish sourceforge and the likes would move projects that have not been touched in a year plus to a separate repo called abandonware and projects that never got started beyond creating project page to vaporware.
Just searching for projects on sourcforge that have been updated with new releases in a year takes the project count from 130547 down to 20263.Last edited by deanjo; 05 August 2008, 10:09 PM.
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