[[REVIEW][3-5-2] fdo#47717, fdo#45562 sw: yet more border painting regressions (was: Re: [REVIEW][3-5][PUSHED] fdo#42750 sw: thin table borders hidden by subsidiary lines)

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hi Michael,

On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 17:44 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote:
> On 20/03/12 12:19, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 23:29 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote:
> >> this fix introduces a new array to store the borders and paints them
> >> after the subsidiary lines are done, effectively on top of the
> >> subsidiary lines.
> >>
> >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=804d0a896731629397c5328c13c04a45bc55f459
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch. I apologize as I should have done that a lot
> > earlier. I cherry-picked and pushed it to -3-5.
> 
> unfortunately it turns out that the patch introduced a regression,
> fdo#47717, which is hopefully fixed with this one (as is fdo#45562,
> which is about borders vs. hellish drawing objects), so please consider
> it for libreoffice-3-5-2:
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=1024c172a5bfb3d85a86fcf7a046aa2b03950edd
> 
> because up until a week ago my knowledge of Writer's drawing code was
> precisely zero, it would be a good idea to test this a bit.  in case
> something is still wrong i'd strongly consider reverting the original
> commit (0f0896c26fb260d1bbf31d7a886df3f61837f0f2).

The patch fixes the mentioned bugs, but I still found a buggy case. See
this document:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~cbosdo/frame-to-back.odt

IMHO, the best effort we could do on that border / subsidiary lines
painting is to avoid buffering any line / subline. I'm still unsure if
it's possible at all without having weird corner cases. I still believe
in "each objects paints itself completely in one shot" idea, but that
would mean to remove all the subsidiary lines code and consider those as
the normal lines.

Any thought on that? I we go in that direction, I'ld revert the patch as
you mention in 3.5.2 and target that work for 3.6: it's still a bit
risky and will need heavy testing.

--
Cedric