[cairo] XShm, again

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 22:19 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
>>> is it worth pursuing this?
>> Given the API headaches it caused me last time, I sleep much better if the
>> answer is no :).
> 
> Sadly, I think given the desired for fast uploading of pixels, suffering
> a little bit more pain to devise a clean, common interface is better
> than the current accretion of backend specific functions. :-p

Agreed.  I prolly can be tricked into liking the create_similar_image() kind
of idea.  It just goes against cairo's design philosophy a bit.

behdad