Re: [E-devel] e17 wallpaper engine configuration

[Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...>]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 06:46:35 +0000 Laurent Ghigonis <ooo...@gm...> said:

> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 04:49:44 +0000
> Laurent Ghigonis <ooo...@gm...> wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:25:13 +0900
> > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ra...@ra...> wrote:
> > > is xrender actually appreciably faster than software for the bg? in
> > > my experience xrender is pretty bad at things like scaling images
> > > which are used very heavily on wallpapers.
> > 
> > heavily depends on the job, so yes it might not be very clean =)
> > but for some animated wallpapers, like the e17_bg_picasso.edj
> > avalaible on exchange, the cpu usage drops from 23% enlightenment 16%
> > xorg to ... 0% 0% (laptop core2duo P8400@2.26Ghz, Mobile Intel GM45
> > Express, OpenBSD using inteldrm).
> > e17_bg_layered_sky on the other hand gives poorer performances on
> > xrender. but in my experience on that intel chipset, animated bg
> > renders better on xrender.
> > if you want expedite scores i can run it.
> > i think the openbsd intel driver is more or less the xorg one, so
> > should be the same as linux.
> > 
> > > as such this makes a little sense, but i'm dubious of the long-term
> > > usefulness. i know i am thinking of killing off the xrender engine
> > > for evas just for maintainability.
> > 
> > maybe then the GL engine could be added to e background ? =)
> 
> mh indeed it is already, just doesn't show up on my laptop.
> the "wallpaper engine" can use it too i guess.

e17 doesnt allow the gl enigne to work - due to caveats with gl rendering and
multiple windows as well as caveats with the gl engine anyway. so as such i
think this should all be put off until you use a compositor - THEN it can work
properly.


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