The main purpose of the opengl testapp was to set the environment
variable LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT if direct rendering is not supported
before glx gets initialized.
With Qt5 we may no longer set this environment variable. QtQuick
requires direct rendering. On IvyBridge QtQuick is crashing if the
variable is set. Thus we are no longer allowed to set it and thus the
complete test becomes pointless.
The test app basically whitelisted most drivers anyway, the only
drivers which were problematic are the proprietary Catalyst drivers.
It that's still a problem we can also disable OpenGL compositing on
those drivers through the recommendation in the GLPlatform.
This also means that the KWIN_DIRECT_GL variable is no longer useful.
Whether creating the OpenGL context succeeds or not
had no influence in any decisions on the used settings
for OpenGL based compositing.
The only valid information CompositingPrefs still detects
is whether direct rendering should be used which is
performed out of process and does not require a context.
So overall the context creation is not needed and can
be removed.
REVIEW: 104778
This means the GLPlatform is filled with values from the
context actually used for Compositing and if XRender
compositing is used no OpenGL information is logged.
There is no need to have it driver specific any more.
All drivers seem to support it (only Intel had been
opt-ed out without any apparent reason shown in commit log).
This was the last driver specific setting which means that
the method applyDriverSpecificSettings() got dropped from
CompositingPrefs.
Strict binding follows the driver (GLPlattform) unless
the user has a config value specified in the kwinrc.
For this a new property is added to Options to indicate
whether strict binding is user defined or follows the
driver. In case of driver the strict binding option is
set when OpenGL compositor starts up.
Due to changes in build system we have always either OpenGL or OpenGL ES.
This allows to remove the KWIN_HAVE_OPENGL_COMPOSITING define. In the
effects the define is kept as KWIN_HAVE_OPENGL which can be used in
future to build also an XRender only effect system.
Removes the Extension::glxAvailable() from kwinglobals and
implements the functionality in CompositingPrefs, where it
is only needed. There used to be one additional check in
scene_opengl_glx.cpp which is moved into composite.cpp
before the OpenGL Scene is created.
REVIEW: 102002
Also add a usable "doesn't work why" info and WARN! the user about clicking the rearm button.
Merge "OpenGLIsUnsafe" and "CheckIsSafe" config keys
Move the entire checking into CompositingPrefs
BUG:250865
FIXED-IN:4.7
the new GLPlatform class instead.
This change also enables loose binding with the R600 drivers
when DRI2 is being used.
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functions and share the value with the KCM; Fallback to XRender
compositing if OpenGL fails to work correctly; Rearrange setting order
in options.h slightly and fix variable names
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like it was before. This makes it possible to enable compositing again on my
R600 hardware and other hardware that is not explicitly known to work.
I also think that CompositingPrefs::enableCompositing() is a (really) bad name:
it's not about user preferences and it's not definitive. So what about
CompositingHardware::isKnownToWork()?.
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Also slightly redo the #define's for effects, now it's:
- #ifdef KWIN_HAVE_COMPOSITING to check whether there's any compositing support at all
- #ifdef KWIN_HAVE_OPENGL_COMPOSITING to check for OpenGL-based compositing
- #ifdef KWIN_HAVE_XRENDER_COMPOSITING the same for XRender
CCMAIL: kwin@kde.org
svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/; revision=749628
being v2+ (right now it says just GPL, which according to GPL itself
means any GPL). Decoration clients will come later.
CCMAIL: kwin@kde.org
svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/; revision=742302
This is used to set sane defaults and work around possible driver bugs.
Also, if you have a "whitelisted" driver (nvidia >= 96.39 or intel >= 20061017)
then compositing will be enabled by default for you.
svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/; revision=714004
