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archived - X11 full-screen unredirection and lots'a settings for KWin
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Donations to kwin-lowlatency? #33

Open Izaic opened 5 years ago

Izaic commented 5 years ago

Is it possible to donate and support you for making this project a reality?

tildearrow commented 5 years ago

I'm sorry to mention this, but at the moment there isn't any way to donate. Thanks for the intention, though!

bidinou commented 5 years ago

I would support too if there was a Patreon page or something. But I don't know if that's a good idea because there are tons of other devs won't don't get paid either ;-) But I would support, definitely !

(BTW, did you talk to Nate Graham (the KDE usability guy who made quite a difference in the past 2 years) about the possibilities to get your work upstream ? That's SO important IMHO -- without it, no proper synchronization in web browsers ; and nowadays, most people just use this app for almost everything :-/ Also it quite helps in gaming scenarios when compo is not suspended and it prevents from having to apply a fix to get the proper framerate :-)

tildearrow commented 5 years ago

(BTW, did you talk to Nate Graham (the KDE usability guy who made quite a difference in the past 2 years) about the possibilities to get your work upstream ? That's SO important IMHO -- without it, no proper synchronization in web browser ; and nowadays, most people just use this app for almost everything :-/

Not yet, although he is aware of this fork:

As for the lowlatency fork and the GTK frameExtents patch, I plan on discussing them with KWin's developers soon.

However, Roman Gilg seems to be working on rewriting the entire rendering pipeline: https://phabricator.kde.org/T11071

(I actually will contact him soon) (he uses GLX_OML_sync_control though which means no NVIDIA support) (yeah, SGI isn't that bad)

bidinou commented 5 years ago

OK, as a dumb user : keeping my fingers crossed. It's exciting to see so much happening lately, been struggling with those issues for years, literally, always hoping for the next release to improve the situation. Thank you again to all involved !!

Pointedstick commented 5 years ago

@tildearrow please feel free to work upstream anytime you like. I'm not knowledgeable enough about KWin's internals to, but Roman's re-work is much-needed, and if any of your work would make sense to fit into that effort or built on top of it after it's done, please feel free to submit patches or get in touch with Roman or other KWin developers. We all tend to hang out in the #plasma-devel Freenode IRC/Matrix room.