On 24.02.2018 00:57, Tomaž Vajngerl wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhi...@gmail.com> > wrote:
>> The X11 backend has certain issues (e.g. reading back huge images via >> XGetImage), the GTK3 backend performs all rendering via software and >> the OpenGL backend on Linux lacks certain features which are crucial >> to achieve acceptable performance (e.g. accelerated text rendering). > > I have added the idea to improve OpenGL backend, which I'm also > willing to mentor. For GTK3 - Caolan is the right guy who knows what > could be improved there performance wise. But OTOH any X11 are > probably pointless as the idea AFAIK is to get rid of those backends > in the long run, so I'm not sure who would even be interested in > mentoring that. :) the gen X11 backend is useful as a fail-safe fallback when the other ones don't work; i've got bad experiences running some of the bibisect repos on Fedora 27 where gen is the only one that doesn't crash on startup, and i guess one of the reasons for that is that ~nobody does changes in gen or the system's X11 libs nowadays. so i'm mostly interested in preserving gen as-is and not adding fancy new stuff with unknown compatibility issues to it... _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice