On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Bill Spitzak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Please keep in mind that the filters GOOD and BEST have been as is for >> a long long time, AFAIU, so changing their behaviour now is likely not >> a good idea. They are no longer "a good filter" and "whatever best >> filter", but "the specific filter called GOOD" and "the specific filter >> called BEST", in lack of documentation saying otherwise. > > > Both GOOD and BEST are identical to BILINEAR in the current version of > Pixman. Therefore anybody relying on the current behaviour can achieve it by > using BILINEAR. In addition GOOD is unchanged for any scales larger than .75 > or for a scale of exactly .5. > > Also despite their names, bilinear in no way would be considered "good" or > "best" by any sane person. We should not add illogical names (like NEW_GOOD > or whatever) just because of paranoia over back-compatibility. It is also > highly desirable that the default actually be "good", this cannot be done > unless GOOD is changed, or the default is changed to "NEW_GOOD". > > This change was made to Cairo over a year ago with no complaints (except for > speed issues, which this patch is necessary to solve by moving the fix from > Cairo to Pixman). Lets get out of the dark ages, and stop doing things that > are making open source desktops a laughingstock. >
Hi Bill, I just now read the new emails (I was on PTO for the last week). It seems you found some mistakes and you want to resend a new version. Did I understand you correctly ? If that is indeed the case, then I prefer to wait for that version (v9), and skip reviewing v8. Please ack this. Oded _______________________________________________ Pixman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pixman
