[cairo] drawable parameter to _cairo_surface_create_similar()

Carl Worth cworth at redhat.com
Tue Feb 1 18:32:30 PST 2005


On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:37:03 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Does anybody know what this is for? (I'm thinking "should it be
> possible to draw to the surface", but what's the point of creating
> a surface you can't draw to?.

Ooh, ick. Did a Boolean parameter manage to sneak in? And with a name
that is a really bad clash with Xlib, XCB, and Glitz backends? And it
never seems to be used?

> Can we remove it?

Looks like a chance to rip code out now and ask questions later.

-Carl
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