Clemens Eisserer wrote:
Who wrote this (I suspect Kirill Kirichenko for some reason) and is
this code still around? It would really help to see it.
Wow, if the code is still arround it would be of course the best solution.
I am curious how all the rendering routines were implemented.
It seems that code is lost. Its author felt it was a dirty hack and a
failed experiment. He remembers the patch gave significant speedup with
vector themes, but nearly regressed on pixmap ones.
I personally agree that the most promising thing is Cairo drawables.
They should have alpha, and by the time jdk7 ships, Cairo will probably
be everywhere.
gtk2_interface.c has a large comment describing the situation at the
time of writing (some five years ago) and possible ways to solve it.
As for drawing to a single pixmap, there's absolutely no reason not to
try. I wonder if X could put limits on pixmap size, e.g. we could end up
with a pixmap twice the size of the screen - this can be a problem maybe.
Thanks!
--
Peter
