Re: cairo x11 surfaces

[Philippe Roussel]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:26:10PM -0600, Eric Wasylishen wrote:
> Hi Fred,
> 
> I had a look at implementing it today, and it turned out to be
> easier than expected so I finished & committed it. 
> 
> If we run in to problems we can switch back to XGCairoXImageSurface
> before the next release, but it looks promising. In particular, I
> tried X forwarding to Apple's X11.app, which only supports 24-bit
> windows, and the new surface is significantly faster than
> XGCairoXImageSurface, and the alpha channel of images is correctly
> preserved (unlike XGCairoSurface).     
> 
> Riccardo, this should fix GNUstep on the 16-bit display
> configuration where it wasn't working for you. If you could test it
> some time and let me know if it works, that would be great.

I tested your modifications briefly yesterday. The gui drawing is now
really fast and responsive over ssh, comparable to gtk I would say,
but I get a lot of flickering when resizing a windows on a local
connection.

Thanks,
Philippe
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