[cairo] [PATCH 0/6] cover glyph support

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 3:54 AM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
>
> It's not mergeable since you break cairo_show_glyphs(), which now
> randomly operates differently based on whether the system loaded a "color"
> glyph - your implementation completely discards the source and changes
> the definition of the glyph operator.
>

To put this another way, there are several places in cairo (and
pixman) which make the assumption that "fonts are collections of
masks".
Fonts with color glyphs invalidate this assumption, which is why these
patches are a bit ugly.

Do you have advice on how to handle this nicely in the cairo architecture ?