Re: About Compositing

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann redhat com>]

Bill Haneman wrote:

> One worry/concern to keep in mind is that at least for the forseeable 
> future we need to keep the metacity-compositing stuff 
> eye-candy/optional only.  The reason for this IMO is not just that 
> COMPOSITE isn't yet universal, but that accessibility magnification 
> will need to use compositing for its own purposes; specifically, the 
> magnification service will need to be the compositing manager. 

Why does it need to *be* the compositing manager? Isn't it sufficient 
for the magnifier to
just know that there *is* a compositing manager (so that the contents of 
windows is
available offscreen?)


Soren