Re: libART backend status

[Sergii Stoian]

Hi Riccardo,

> On 1 Dec 2019, at 16:06, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi Fred and Sergey,
> 
> As of July 28 2019 of GUI and Back everything worked mostly fine: Terminal, 
> GWorkspace come up and menus are properly displayed as far as I can tell.
> 
> 
> I upgraded base / gui / back to current git master, I removed the old 
> libraries to be sure. I rebuilt some apps and started them, they all look 
> fine. I don't get cut menus or similar.
> 
> Actually everything looks better than on those platforms where I have the 
> problems of misspaced cairo fonts!
> 
> GWorkspace, Terminal do look fine. Even difficult AClock draws fine and 
> BatteryMonitor is fine too.
> 
> I tried drawing in Graphos and adding some text, works as expected.Beziers 
> and text in Graphos look better with libart than anything else and it is even 
> fast on this old laptop!
> 
> Heck... even SimpleWebKit+Vespucci display, within SWK limits, nice text and 
> (some) pictures! Scrolling is incredibly fast Amazed!
> 
> 
> Actually, I found a display issue: a PopUpButton in PRICE has the entries cut 
> off... instead of display "Fit horizontally" only "Fit" is displayed.

As I’ve already wrote in a mail with screenshots: I observed the same.

> With this hind... I found that the same thing happens in the GWorkspace 
> preference menu: "Deskto" is displayed in the PopUpButton.. but once 
> selected, correctly Desktop is shown.

Do you have missed right side menu border?

> All PopUpButtons are affected...

The same.

> Similar issue is displayed by Tabs Titles.
> 
> 
> I did notice this issue only after playing around a bit, so i cannot check if 
> previous to the upgrade it did  work.

I noticed it with change from 0.25.0 to 0.25.1 release.

> 
> 
> Riccardo
> 

Sergii