Re: cairo x11 surfaces

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi
> 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.
>    
Right. Exporting do 16-bit displays seems to work quite well. I did not 
try locally on 16bit yet.
I built it on PPC, exported to X11 16-bit, seems to work fine. It works 
fine locally in 24bit on x86... I did only quick tests. Some operations 
seem to have become faster. I think definitvely exporting display is 
better as Philippe reported.

Window resizing is definitively slow and flickery, also locally.


Riccardo