[cairo] A hidden offset for the xlib backend

[Carl Worth]

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 15:27:16 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Hmm, while I'm thinking about such subjects, there are some other
> additions that would be nice from a performance point of view:
> 
>  - The ability have an additional rectangle-list clip in the
>    Xlib surface.
>
>  - The ability to pass in a width/height to cairo_xlib_surface_create()
>    to avoid a round-trip. (Round-trips are bad to the point where
>    querying the the server is something you don't want to do in
>    production software)
> 
>  - More of a future thing, the ability to hint to to cairo that 
>    the contents of the Xlib surface passed to  
>    cairo_xlib_surface_create() are a solid fill

These are all quite reasonable. I've added these to cairo/TODO. Though
I hope to curtail its monotonic growth at some point...

I know you'll do your best to keep it growing though. Keep it up. I do
appreciate it.

-Carl