[cairo] [RFC] Remove client-side workarounds

[Soeren Sandmann]

Thomas Jaeger <thjaeger at gmail.com> writes:

> >> An important question is when to use Render for Pad/Reflect (see the
> >> commit message of the first patch), as we can't detect whether the X
> >> server is using a broken driver and/or pixman version.  I haven't
> >> implemented any checks for now, mainly because I'm unsure about which X
> >> server version would be reasonably safe.

Maybe simply bump the RENDER version number in the server and make it
require pixman 0.15.x?  I'm planning some clipping changes too, that
it may be useful to be able to test for on the client side.


Soren