Help with talking points

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Aug 17 20:42:21 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:28 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:50 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:27 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 04:15:48PM +0200, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 00:18 +0200, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> > > > >> More user visible things to check about current status: multi touch,
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't think this is going to be user visible until GTK+ / Qt get
> > > > > support, and that's not likely for F14 (especially since we're not
> > > > > taking GTK+ 3).
> > > > 
> > > > So it seems we are being beaten to "first" here:
> > > > http://lwn.net/Articles/400455/
> > > 
> > > First to rush in with a not-upstream set of extensions?  Perhaps.
> > > >From reading the article, looks to me like Peter Hutterer &co. are
> > > working on an upstream implementation that's more sustainable.
> > 
> > Careful there.  We shipped DRI2 before it was really baked upstream.
> 
> 'Before it was baked upstream' is rather different from 'a completely
> different and incompatible implementation from the one upstream is
> already working on. Hosted in launchpad.' though.

Seems like I spoke too soon (me? never!) - now I look at xorg-devel
archives, they seem to be handling this one rather decently. Ain't that
nice.
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