On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:26:10PM -0600, Eric Wasylishen wrote:
I had a look at implementing it today, and it turned out to be
easier than expected so I finished& committed it.
If we run in to problems we can switch back to XGCairoXImageSurface
before the next release, but it looks promising. In particular, I
tried X forwarding to Apple's X11.app, which only supports 24-bit
windows, and the new surface is significantly faster than
XGCairoXImageSurface, and the alpha channel of images is correctly
preserved (unlike XGCairoSurface).
Riccardo, this should fix GNUstep on the 16-bit display
configuration where it wasn't working for you. If you could test it
some time and let me know if it works, that would be great.
I tested your modifications briefly yesterday. The gui drawing is now
really fast and responsive over ssh, comparable to gtk I would say,
but I get a lot of flickering when resizing a windows on a local
connection.