Hello, I recently read through the list of GSoC project ideas for 2018, and what made me wonder is that most project ideas center around small-mid new features or new functionality.
Would it be also possible to work on projects, which improve the current implementation. There are e.g. a few long-standing performance problem with rendering performance on Unix platforms: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80659 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87485 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115702 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101162 ...... The X11 backend has certain issues (e.g. reading back huge images via XGetImage), the GTK3 backend performs all rendering via software and the OpenGL backend on Linux lacks certain features which are crucial to achieve acceptable performance (e.g. accelerated text rendering). Such improvements would benefit all LIbreoffice' users on Unix platforms. Would it be possible to get an item-point for profiling and improving this situation on the project's idea page? Thanks & best regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
