Dropping X11 VCL backend

[Tomaž Vajngerl]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 3:25 PM Ilmari Lauhakangas <
ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org> wrote:

> On 29.12.2020 8.13, Chris Sherlock wrote:
> > I am interested in knowing the future of the X11 VCL backend now that we
> have a Skia backend. Are there any plans afoot to remove it and just go
> with the Skia backend?
> >
> > If not, may I ask the reason? It seems maintenance heavy.
> >
> > If we are, do we have a potential release where we believe that Skia is
> stable enough to use and remove the X11 backend?
>
> We could start by gathering the concrete things that we use X11 backend
> for.
>
> One of them is UI tests, where we advise to use SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen
> when we want to observe the UI while running tests or while logging UI
> events in the domain specific language:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/UITests
>
> Hopefully someone can explain why we still need to do this.
>
>
Just for clarification, the idea is to remove X11 graphic drawing backend
and use skia instead, but X11 would still be used for windows/frames, so
AFAIK gen would still exist, it would just use skia.


> Ilmari
>

Tomaž
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