[gst-devel] priority of gnonlin and clutter-toolkit

[Edward Hervey]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 15:34 +0000, Tim-Philipp Müller wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 14:35 +0200, Aapo Rantalainen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Hi, I'm using gnonlin and clutter together and there are problems with
> > priorities. Gnonlin should have better priority than redraw of
> > Clutter.
> > 
> > gnl/gnlcomposition.c:633
> > /* FIXME : This should be switched to using a g_thread_create() instead
> >        * of a g_idle_add(). EXTENSIVE TESTING AND ANALYSIS REQUIRED BEFORE
> >        * DOING THE SWITCH !!! */
> >       comp->priv->pending_idle =
> > 
> > -  g_idle_add ((GSourceFunc) eos_main_thread, (gpointer) comp);
> > + g_idle_add_full (G_PRIORITY_HIGH_IDLE, (GSourceFunc)
> > eos_main_thread, (gpointer) comp, NULL);
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.clutter-project.org/docs/clutter/stable/clutter-General.html#CLUTTER-PRIORITY-REDRAW--CAPS
> 
> Could you file a bug in bugzilla about this please, so it's not
> forgotten about and we can be sure the gnonlin maintainers actually
> notice it. Thanks!

  That would be https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595187

  Since, as written in the big comment just above, the proper fix isn't
to change idle_add priorities... but to use a *real* separate thread.

   Edward

> 
> Cheers
>  -Tim
> 
> 
> 
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