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16:20:51
john-a-carroll
beach: many applications would never have that many lines in a pane - but conversely in some applications it would happen often
16:21:05
john-a-carroll
it's common in the application I'm currently working on, the LKB system https://github.com/delph-in/docs/wiki/LkbFos (this is an NLP research system which has been developed over many years)
16:21:50
john-a-carroll
here's an example of what happens when scrolling one kind of graphical visualisation of a large linguistically-precise grammar of English: http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~johnca/lkb_type_hierarchy.webm
16:22:20
john-a-carroll
all is fine when scrolling near the bottom of the pane, but there's extensive corruption when scrolling near the top - at the end of the video I resized the window, and the resulting replay shows what should be there
3:08:07
beach
Krystof: Yes, coordinate swizzling was designed to make that work with mirrored sheets. The X11 window created would have a limited size, and the sheet transformation(s) would be set up to do the right thing. But we have had trouble with that code.
3:08:08
beach
Plus, it turns out that sheets should not be mirrored unless they represent foreign gadgets. So we (or I thought we) got rid of most mirrored sheets so that only the top sheet is mirrored.