[arch-dev-public] cairo xcb backend

[Ronald van Haren]

On 9/8/10, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 16:10 +0200, Ronald van Haren wrote:
>> Fair enough, if enabling the xcb backend slows things down, especially
>> if it is unmaintained so not likely to improve soon, we should remove
>> it.
>> It's a shame that awesome has to go but I'm sure the people using
>> awesome know how to handle building from AUR/ABS and create a
>> xcb-enabled cairo for it.
>
> If it was just an optional backend, I would leave it enabled. But the
> fact is that the XCB backend replaces the Xlib version, resulting in
> visual bugs and crashes. I'm not concerned about performance here.
> We have a bugreport for Seamonkey that crashes with weird BadMatch
> errors when compiled against system cairo. Users blame me for fucking up
> the seamonkey package by compiling against system cairo, but in fact,
> the problem is most likely caused by using the XCB backend instead of
> the regular Xlib backend. Note that any bugreport about Seamonkey could
> also be valid for Firefox and Thunderbird.
>
>

okay, seems like the way to go. Let me know when you move it into
extra so I can remove awesome from community (or do it yourself if you
have community repo access).

Maybe a short frontpage or forum post to notify the change too?

Ronald