Comment 2 for bug 1500529

matttbe, thanks for your comment.

I have not yet read much of cairo-dock's code, but when doing damaging code work I found Compiz' Show Repaint plugin to be very useful as it allows one to exactly visually observe what the damaging code is doing and which repaints are exactly happening.

Currently my time is very limited, but I might look into it in the future (after I've got a build-and-run-cairo-dock-from-source procedure set up).