[cairo] [RFC] Remove client-side workarounds

[Thomas Jaeger]

Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> Thomas Jaeger <thjaeger at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>>> An important question is when to use Render for Pad/Reflect (see the
>>>> commit message of the first patch), as we can't detect whether the X
>>>> server is using a broken driver and/or pixman version.  I haven't
>>>> implemented any checks for now, mainly because I'm unsure about which X
>>>> server version would be reasonably safe.
> 
> Maybe simply bump the RENDER version number in the server and make it
> require pixman 0.15.x?  I'm planning some clipping changes too, that
> it may be useful to be able to test for on the client side.

I like the idea.  Keith, does this seem feasible?

Thanks,
Tom