[RFC][PATCH] dix/composite: Update windows with automatically redirected children on demand

[Keith Packard]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:45:39 +0200, Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at nokia.com> wrote:

> Could be overwritten fully, partially, or not at all, depending on
> the operation and GC clipping, I suppose? If any part of it gets
> overwritten it still seems better to copy from the child first,
> otherwise the last rendering results can get overwritten by the
> composite block handler.

As I said, they'll get overwritten eventually, so it's only a matter of
'when', not 'if'. Given that we're not going to make this 'correct',
we should probably just figure out what we actually want.

> BTW isn't the current backing store implementation simply broken if
> someone renders with IncludeInferiors to the parent? There's no copy
> from the parent to the child's backing store.

Yup.

Frankly, the whole IncludeInferiors spec is too picky -- it should have
been treated as 'best effort' instead of requiring drawing across
boundaries when depths matched. Sigh.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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