[Cairo-dock-team] [Bug 1500529] Re: Cairo-Dock damages/repaints all of the dock windows if just one pixel in an applet changes

2015-10-11 Thread Matthieu Baerts
Hello, Yes, it's true that these repaints could be optimised but repaints have already been minimised and having this feature could introduce new bugs, a more complex code (harder to maintain) and most of the time, the dock has to be resized (when adding/removing icons, moving the mouse inside the

[Cairo-dock-team] [Bug 1500529] Re: Cairo-Dock damages/repaints all of the dock windows if just one pixel in an applet changes

2015-10-11 Thread MC Return
matttbe, thanks for your comment. I have not yet read much of cairo-dock's code, but when doing damaging code work I found Compiz' Show Repaint plugin to be very useful as it allows one to exactly visually observe what the damaging code is doing and which repaints are exactly happening. Currently