On Wednesday, December 5, 2012, Christopher Michael wrote:

> On 05/12/12 10:05, Michael Blumenkrantz wrote:
> > there's at least one reason to keep xlib: xcb doesn't support custom
> mouse
> > cursors. unless we add loaders and workarounds for this, it's definitely
> > worth keeping xlib.
> >
>
> Yes. XCB does not have xcursor library support (ie: there is no
> xcb-xcursor to read the xcursor files). We could implement some code to
> read those tho, and it is on my (overgrown) TODO list...just have to
> find time.


Is that the only blocker? Seems feasible to work on that instead of
maintaining 2 Evas and Ecore_X engines.

Anything else? Cedric mentioned about GL, could someone confirm? Is it
possible to do it in xcb and the guy uses xlib on top, if xlib is built
with xcb it should work.




>
> dh
>
> > also we really do need a server profile build for the efl tree. having to
> > build all of evas and ecore-evas stuff when you just want ecore-con is a
> > pain.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <
> > [email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Lately having to read more code than I'd like, but some stuff came to my
> >> mind as cleanup. Please comment before I execute them tomorrow:
> >>
> >> - remove directfb
> >>
> >> - remove ifdef related to async pipe and image preload. Always enabled
> >>
> >> - remove cserve1
> >>
> >> - remove Evas pipe (up to discussion, but I rather remove it and the
> huge
> >> amount of code that exist to support it). With the new thread system it
> >> wouldn't work as is, we'd need to modify it anyway and I don't think it
> >> will bring much gain.
> >>
> >> - remove code to clip to an image/mask. Seems to not be working, it's
> >> quite complex and nobody seems to be getting it anytime soon. It's
> better
> >> to come to it again in a clean approach than try to fix what's in there
> now
> >>
> >> - remove code, mostly commented, to handle filters. Nash started but it
> >> never worked and there are mountains of code related to that commented
> or
> >> #if 0
> >>
> >> - various general cleanups of commented or #if 0/1 in the engines.
> >> Particularly in x11. Raster, could you check those? Likely you added
> most
> >> of them.
> >>
> >>
> >> On a related note I wonder about xlib x xcb. I tried xcb in the
> beginning
> >> "because it was cool" but our engines did not work properly and I
> reverted
> >> to xlib since then (2007? 2008?). How is it now? Do we really have to
> >> maintain xlib if xcb is working? Seems xlib is implemented on top of xcb
> >> now. Reducing one engine in Evas and one in Ecore would be helpful.
> >>
> >> --Gustavo
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
>
>
>
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