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Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: Add skia support.
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: Add skia support. |
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Mon, 6 Mar 2017 14:19:13 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) |
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 07:09:14PM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> Hi,
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> Here are three patches to add skia, a graphics library and add support
> for it in icecat. It is not made the default graphics engine, so to
> enable it, you need to go in about:config and change
> `gfx.content.azure.backends' and `gfx.canvas.azure.backends' to `skia'
> instead of cairo. Doing this seems to solve the random crashes.
These patches are valuable for unbundling.
It should be noted that our IceCat package already includes skia, and
users have to take the same steps to enable skia. Let's see what the
difference is between the skia provided by IceCat and this skia, to make
sure we don't introduce new bugs or compatibility issues.
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