Bugzilla Bug 28712

I've hacked around a bit with this piece of software, to reduce the whopping
>40MB memory-consumption of 3ddeskd down to about 17MB. This is done by 2 things:
 - free some imlib-objects that are only needed once, after the image
transformation is done. Which saves ~10MB at no cost.
 - introduce texture-compression, which saves another 17MB at the default
texture-size. Gets only activated if you put "compression 1" into your
3ddesktop.conf

It also fixes a minor bug regarding the --acquire=... option. The timing should
work more reliable now. 3ddeskd hung for me, when started with --acquire=X and X>99

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Invoke 3ddeskd like this:
> 3ddeskd --acquire=100, or something >100


Actual Results:  
3ddeskd starts, acquires the first desktop and then hangs

Expected Results:  
3ddeskd should acquire all my desktops with the given delay.

(and shouldn't use more resident memory than my X-Server) :)

The patch is against 3ddesktop-0.2.5

Created an attachment (id=17704) [edit]
The patch to fix the bug, cut down mem-consumption and make the use of
compressed textures possible

Just as a sidenote: make sure you sent the patch to the main developer too..
(would be bard at systemtoolbox.com according to README)

Created an attachment (id=23494) [edit]
patch for the 0.2.5 ebuild, implements the patch from first attachment

Works for me.
Copy patch into files dir, named 3ddeskMEM+Compression+Fix-0.2.5.patch

Of course I've sent this patch to the main developer, too. I think it's in his
CVS-tree. But Brad seems to be really busy and a new release is not in sight.

fwiw, i've applied the patch and rebuilt locally and it builds clean and does
seem to run a bit smoother than before.

cheers

In cvs, thanks