Re: [clutter] gnome-shell / mutter / ARB_texture_rectangle

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 19:14 +0000, Neil Roberts wrote:
> Hi Owen,
> 
> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 12:00 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > I wanted to push some more on this.
> > 
> >  - What approach do I need to go with for a patch that will be accepted?
> > 
> >  - If that isn't clear, what research needs to be done and what
> >    information needs to be provided?
> 
> I think the worry was that adding new API to Clutter to support
> rectangle texture makes it look like they are first class citizens and
> that they are fully supported. It also makes it difficult to remove the
> support later on if it is no longer necessary.
> 
> I had a suggestion that we might be able to do it without adding any new
> API if we internally support rectangle textures but only allow creating
> CoglHandles to them via cogl_texture_new_from_foreign.
>
> I've created two bug reports with changes to your patches to implement
> this here:
> 
> http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1297
> 
> http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298

This looks like a reasonable, workable approach to me and the patches
seem to perform fine in initial testing. I'll take a closer look through
them and follow up on the bugs.

- Owen