gtk clutter tearing

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Claudio Saavedra wrote:
> El mar, 29-12-2009 a las 17:17 +0200, Eero Tamminen escribió:
>> This is not really 
>> fixable due to how Gtk painting is arranged, parts of the window are
>> painted in application callbacks. 
> 
> This is not totally correct. Application callbacks can only cause GTK+
> to *invalidate* regions. In sane code, redrawing *never* happens in a
> user callback but only in expose event callbacks, which are triggered by
> GTK+ *only* when the time for redrawing comes.

Application (expose event) callbacks implement painting for
application's own widgets and treeview cell renderers.

But where inside the application process they happen (app or Gtk code)
is not so important.  The issue is that Gtk (AFAIK) has no mechanism to
synchronize this drawing with the compositor and doesn't offer
applications any mechanism for it either.  If painting/redrawing
takes too long (there's some delay between the X draw commands due
to what application does internally), it doesn't go the the same boxed
XDamage event to the compositor.


	- Eero