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Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) wrote : Re: [Bug 827537] Re: unity-window-decorator needs to support anti aliased rounded corners

e rOn Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Daniel van Vugt wrote:

> I think you underestimate the value of simplistic graphics code. Very
> often just letting overdraw happen is much faster than going to the
> effort of avoiding it.
>

It's a wrapped function call, which means that every single plugin that
has a handler on that window is going to get called, plus we need to
recompute the geometry multiple times etc.

> But I know compiz and the window decoration code are both complex and
> difficult to simplify, except in baby steps...
>
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> Title:
> unity-window-decorator needs to support anti aliased rounded corners
>
> Status in Compiz Core:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> unity-window-decorator needs to support anti alised rounded corners
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