On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:32:04 +0100
drago01 <drago01(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Felix Miata
<mrmazda(a)earthlink.net>
wrote:
> On 2009/11/28 03:01 (GMT+0530) Rahul Sundaram composed:
>
>> Huh? Your perspective just seems very odd. In a year, if we don't
>> have a composited desktop by default in Fedora, I would be very
>> very surprised. Just watch.
>
> Good thing all puters don't depend on batteries for power.
It does not matter how often people repeat that (and even if KDE has
an option to "disable composting to save power") just running a
composite manager should NOT require any more power.
If it does it is just broken. In fact it should use LESS power if done
right (less wakeups because you don't have to update the whole screen
every time something changes),
Let me say this again a cm DOES NOT require more power than a non
composited desktop. (notice the NOT)
sadly I am no longer convinced you are correct.
But to each their own..... in the long run we'll end up with whatever
solution is best, whichever it is.
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