On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:55:03AM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 09:52:38 -0700 > Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:03:24PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 14 July 2015 at 11:07, Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > From: Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > What is libweston and where do we intend to go with it. > > > > > > Sounds good to me, although the bit about always using > > > --with-cairo=image just makes me lean even more towards removing the > > > other options. > > > > What exactly does that affect inside Weston? Is it just some of the > > example clients, or does it affect stuff that actual users would care > > about? > > It mainly affects the toytoolkit, which flavour of Cairo it will use > for everything. It doesn't affect the compositor as such, but as it > affects all demo clients which includes weston-desktop-shell, it will > impact all users. > > Until we actually fix that, I recommend people to build with the > default flavour "image". > > A quick fix would be to have a runtime switch in toytoolkit to ask for > cairo-egl, and default to cairo-image. This way we'd limit the > cairo-egl impact to just the demos that actually ask for it. > > A more involved fix would be to get rid of cairo-egl completely, and > remove the support from toytoolkit. Then demos that depended on it > would need to get their decorations drawn with cairo-image, copied into > textures, and blitted in GL to the surface.
Mind if we postpone eliminating this functionality for a few months? I'd like to do some experimentation with cairo performance under wayland and I'd like to quantify the benefit/cost of cairo-egl before we chuck it. Bryce _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
