Hi, On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 3:25 PM Ilmari Lauhakangas < ilmari.lauhakan...@libreoffice.org> wrote:
> On 29.12.2020 8.13, Chris Sherlock wrote: > > I am interested in knowing the future of the X11 VCL backend now that we > have a Skia backend. Are there any plans afoot to remove it and just go > with the Skia backend? > > > > If not, may I ask the reason? It seems maintenance heavy. > > > > If we are, do we have a potential release where we believe that Skia is > stable enough to use and remove the X11 backend? > > We could start by gathering the concrete things that we use X11 backend > for. > > One of them is UI tests, where we advise to use SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen > when we want to observe the UI while running tests or while logging UI > events in the domain specific language: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/UITests > > Hopefully someone can explain why we still need to do this. > > Just for clarification, the idea is to remove X11 graphic drawing backend and use skia instead, but X11 would still be used for windows/frames, so AFAIK gen would still exist, it would just use skia. > Ilmari > Tomaž
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