Re: Which bugs to focus on for the release?

[Quentin Mathé]

Hi Riccardo,

Le 20 avr. 2010 à 00:36, Riccardo Mottola a écrit :

> Hi
> > The switch to cairo as the default backend was a step that I should  
> > have
> > done right after the last release. Doing so now is just not  
> > advisable.
> > Or is it?
> I think not, libart should stick for this release, cairo will be for  
> the next.
>
> Cairo has some problems here and there, although it is reasonably  
> usable for the day usage.
>
> For example cairo has troubles with displaying (big) images, it can  
> suddenly say it cannot allocate shared memory and then gets slooowww

Can you give a detailed list of all these problems? Are they reported  
in the bug tracker?

There are problems with Art too.
- GSReadRect is broken in Art, see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23333
- Pattern drawing doesn't work well

However Art works better than Cairo for -compositeToPoint and - 
drawInRect without my patch, but it doesn't handle the scaling between  
the fromRect and toRect correctly.

Quentin.