[Bug 452427] Review Request: awesome - Extremely fast, small, dynamic and awesome floating and tiling window manager

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Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> changed:

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--- Comment #55 from Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>  2009-06-02 11:16:58 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #54)
> As cairo maintainer denying to include XKB support into main cairo package,
> what if cairo-experimental package will be made to include those such
> extensions like XKB? It can work in two ways:

XCB (the X Client Binding), not XKB (the X KeyBoard extension).


> 1. Rename library to libcairo-experimental.so, and link awesome against it. But
> here is high risk that both cairo libraries will be loaded.
> 
> 2. Put libcairo.so to an alternative path like /usr/lib/cairo-expermental and
> add it to ld.so search path so it loaded instead of main cairo.
> (freetype-freeworld in RPM Fusion work this way.) This way it will override
> system cairo.
> 
> I’m inclined to try second way. What do you think about it?  

Sounds like a very crude kludge, but it would most probably work.

Are you sure your time wouldn't be better spent reviewing cairo's XCB backend
and determining what needs to be done in order to bring it on par with the
libX11 backend?

You could write a summary to both the XCB and Cairo lists, asking if one of the
developers wants to help you out.

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