Talk:Stacking window manager

Who says stacking window managers have to use painter's algorithm?

This:

Stacking is a very slow process, requiring the redrawing of every window one-by-one, from the rear-most and outer-most to the front most and inner-most. Many stacking window managers don't always redraw background windows. Others can detect when a redraw of all windows is required, as some applications request stacking when their output has changed.

contradicts this:

A stacking window manager is a window manager that draws all windows in a specific order, allowing them to overlap, using a technique called painter's algorithm.

99.224.115.100 (talk) 20:40, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Microsoft Windows XP still exclusively uses a stacking window manager, which has presented severe limitations to its ability to display hardware-accelerated content inside normal windows,"

There is no source of information for this content. What are these "severe limitations"? I have seen accelerated content running just fine inside normal windows on Microsoft Windows XP.

Markhobley (talk) 11:33, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me like the article is very biased against its own subject. Perhaps it could be rewritten in part?

71.220.222.208 (talk) 02:10, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, this article touts Windows as an example of a stacking WM, but the description of what a stacking WM is looks nothing like what Windows actually does. I don't think a partial rewrite will fix this article, it needs to be rewritten completely, which is why I will blank it.