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Comment 6 for bug 1263741

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Gerry Boland (gerboland) wrote : Re: Some snapshots on Nexus10 upside-down (and occasionally swapped red/blue channels)

> It's highly likely that "upside-down" and confused RGB/BGR are two separate bugs. Can
> you please separate them?
Ok

> Also, please remind me why we need snapshots still? Generating a snapshot is much
> more computationally intense for both GPU and CPU than showing a live preview of a surface.
> Is it lack of API preventing use of live previews?
We rely heavily on snapshots for current window management animations - we're not ready to use live previews yet.

We will always need snapshots however for application lifecycle purposes, to make app stop/respawn transparent to the user (we'll save snapshot to disk).