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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 12:42 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> On 5/20/05, Keith Whitwell <keith@tungstengraphics.com> wrote: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > Isn't the cursor just the topmost composited element?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Don't you want hardware cursor support so the mouse won't lag when</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> CPU gets loaded?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Everything else will lag behind the hardware cursor in that case. Which</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>of these cases is worse is a matter of taste I guess. Cursor support in</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>EGL may be nice to have, but it's not a requirement (witness Xephyr).</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Michel Danzer, Linux Software Engineering \ Tel: +1 905-882-2600</FONT>
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