surface buffer cardinality and outputs

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:52:55 +0100
Sylvain BERTRAND <sylware at legeek.net> wrote:

> The other option would be to ignore those output properties, and
> the compositor would manage something with an output agnostic
> buffer.  In that case, we would remove the subpixel property from
> the output to stay consistent (mode is used for shell surface
> fullscreen).

Btw. the sub-pixel property has also other issues: if the compositor
does any surface transformations instead of pure translation, any
sub-pixel rendering will become incorrect. That's a gap we haven't
really tried to solve yet, either.


Thanks,
pq