[Sugar-devel] Fix for AbiWord flicker and caret issues

[James Cameron]

Thanks Martin.

Your fix looks a little bit like mine; but I'm not quite sure what it
is doing; could you comment on what your patch does?  Mine was on the
AbiSource bug 13791, was taken by Debian and Ubuntu, and can be found
with detailed explanation at

https://sources.debian.org/patches/abiword/3.0.2-6/fix-flickering.patch/

But it didn't work well with Wayland, according to Hubert.  I'm not
targeting Wayland, so it was out of my scope.  When Wayland or a
compositor are used, the redraws would often have no visible effect.

I'd like to understand your fix as compared to mine.

You might also ask for feedback from Abiword users on 13791.

https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791

The quickest way to reproduce Write flickering at the moment is to
download Sugar on a Stick, for Fedora 28, which has the bug.

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 01:01:46PM +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I recently committed a fix to abiword head that I believe fixes a number of
> abiword flickering and caret issues.
> 
> I believe that this should also improve the performance of the application. It
> was previously burning a lot of CPU in endless redraws.
> 
> I haven't checked on Sugar Write which is built from abiwidget. I also haven't
> checked that the multiple carets work either. I'd very much appreciate someone
> from the sugar community trying it and providing feedback. Unfortunately it
> appears that the abiword-devel mailing list has been put into hibernation but
> if you reply to me via this mailing list I'll get your feedback and will work
> on fixing problems you report.
> 
> Sorry it has taken me so long to get round to this.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Martin Sevior
> 

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