Public bug reported:

gnome-shell is wasting CPU repainting an unchanging panel and dock.
Every time an app window changes all visible actors including the panel
get repainted. But the panels mostly doesn't change, so should be cached
via offscreen-redirect instead.

** Affects: gnome-shell
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: performance

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #792633
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792633

** Also affects: gnome-shell via
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792633
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Summary changed:

- gnome-shell is wasting CPU repainting an unchanging panel
+ gnome-shell is wasting CPU repainting unchanging panels

** Description changed:

- gnome-shell is wasting CPU repainting an unchanging panel. Every time an
- app window changes all visible actors including the panel get repainted.
- But the panel mostly doesn't change, so should be cached via offscreen-
- redirect instead.
+ gnome-shell is wasting CPU repainting an unchanging panel and dock.
+ Every time an app window changes all visible actors including the panel
+ get repainted. But the panels mostly doesn't change, so should be cached
+ via offscreen-redirect instead.

** Also affects: gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)

** Changed in: gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

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