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12:59:13
loke
jackdaniel: Are you there? I have a question w.r.t. xrender... Do we already store a picture representing the entire window? The font renderer (both of them, afaik) allocates its own, which is a bit of a waste.
13:38:08
loke
jackdaniel: I was checking how the render backend handles complex shapes, and it uses the PATHS library (part of cl-vectors). I didn' tknow about this library.
13:39:07
loke
It implements the necessary code to break paths and polygons into simples shapes, which is what is needed for xrender as well. I've already gotten the basic line drawing working with xrender, so now I'm looking into leveraing PATHS in the same wasy as the render backend.
13:42:57
jackdaniel
instead of copying code over maybe it is possible to reuse render methods? or refactor them into reusable components?
18:37:10
ck_
jackdaniel: I believe #742 can be closed now; also, #699 needs only a technical writeup and a normalization of the standard width/height values for all panes. Would you like me to put a diff as a comment?