GSoC project ideas for improving LOs core-code / performance

2018-02-22 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hello, I recently read through the list of GSoC project ideas for 2018, and what made me wonder is that most project ideas center around small-mid new features or new functionality. Would it be also possible to work on projects, which improve the current implementation. There are e.g. a few long-

Re: Why does the GTK3 vcl sal plugin default to SvpSalGraphics / software rendering?

2018-02-14 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Tomaz, Thanks for your time taking a look at this. > Not sure what you mean software - it is using cairo, which is used for > canvas in GTK 2/3 for example. Whatever that triggers on cairo's > backend could be done in software and some code paths could trigger > code path in X This is wh

Why does the GTK3 vcl sal plugin default to SvpSalGraphics / software rendering?

2018-02-14 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, I am currently analyzing performance issues when scrolling larger images in writer on linux, especially when they have an alpha channel: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115702 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80659 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show

Re: Error compiling LibreOffice git (Xinerama not functional?)

2018-02-12 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi again, > Look for XineramaIsActive in config.log. That may give you a hint as to > why the test fails. My guess is a compile error, as, judging from what > have you written about your other problems, your system doesn't appear > to be in a good state. (Several of us build on F-27 daily. Just as

Re: Error compiling LibreOffice git (Xinerama not functional?)

2018-02-12 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Stephan, > Did you install the relevant -devel packages, libxslt-devel, > libXrandr-devel, libXinerama-devel? Generally, `sudo dnf builddep > libreoffice` (as given at Sure, I manually instalelled the devel packages - however to make sure, I also executed the dnf builddep command you mentione

Error compiling LibreOffice git (Xinerama not functional?)

2018-02-12 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, I am trying to diagnose some performance issues I am experiencing running LO on Linux. Compiling on Fedora-27 seems a little bit troublesome, as I: * had to set libxslt and libexslt includes and libraries manually * disable xrandr, despite headers and library installed, it aborted with "not f