ESC meeting minutes: 2023-07-13

[Roman Kuznetsov]

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> Subject: ESC meeting minutes: 2023-07-13
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:51:16 +0200
> From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at collabora.com>
> To: libreoffice at lists.freedesktop.org
> CC: libreoffice-qa at lists.freedesktop.org, projects at global.libreoffice.org
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> * Present:
>      + Cloph, Gabriel, Heiko, Hossein, Ilmari, Michael W, Michael S,
> Regina, Stephan, Olivier, Eike, Xisco, Thorsten, Miklos, Tomaz, Khaled,
> Justin, Stephane
> ...
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> * Change Skia/Raster to enabled by default (Roman)
>    + see https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/154322
>    + I think we should only make any such change on the release branch
> (Noel)
>    + it would be disappointing to degrade the skia support in LO (Hossein)
>      + but if nobody steps up to do the GPU-specific work...
>    + interested in svg-in-toolbars using skia (Hossein)
>      + the SVG icons are rasterized to PNGs on the fly (Ilmari)
>      + we have some kind of graphic tests that we could use to startup
> to detect if Skia can be safely turned on with Vulkan, but it needs some
> work (Tomaz)
>        + plan to progress with this, but low-priority
>        + but could be a solution long-term
>      + toolbar icons: all svgs are turned into png, exactly to help
> performance
>        + our svg import doesn't handle our small icons currently
>        + something to fix sooner or later
>        + if using Skia for SVG, then it has to be built everywhere,
> currently it's OK to disable it at build-time
>        + the Debian maintainer is rather unimpressed by Skia (Michael S)
>        + Current implementation is 10 times slower compared to Skia
> (Hossein)
>          + hope to have tenders to move this forward
>        + svg icons was already a motivation for tendering (Tomaz)
>          + would also improve svg import
> ....
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Hi all. Unfortunately I don't see any AI about Skia/Raster enabled by
default in the minutes. Was it there?
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Best regards
Roman Kuznetsov
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