planning directfb 1.4 transition

[Fathi BOUDRA-4]

(cc'ing related teams)

Hi,

This is an informative mail. I have uploaded DirectFB 1.4 to experimental.
At some point, the transition could be started (after coordination
with the related maintainers).

I didn't tried myself to rebuild affected packages yet.

Thus, quoting upstream:
Most software will run out-of-the-box after a recompile.
The major changes are listed here:
* Functions to rotate windows and layers:
IDirectFBDisplayLayer::GetRotation, IDirectFBDisplayLayer::SetRotation
and IDirectFBWindow::SetRotation
* Functions to alter or initialise keymaps:
IDirectFBInputDevice::LoadKeymap and
IDirectFBInputDevice::SetKeymapEntry
* DWOP_FOLLOW_BOUNDS: make the bounds of a window follow the parent bounds.
 Note that this requires the SaWMan window manager to function.
* DWCAPS_SUBWINDOW: create a subwindow instead of a top-level window.
* New pixel format: RGBA4444
* added DFBSurfaceHintFlags to surface creation to optimise e.g.
memory allocation.

Let me know if there's known blockers.

cheers,

Fathi

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[Frans Pop-3]

On Saturday 22 August 2009, Fathi Boudra wrote:
> This is an informative mail. I have uploaded DirectFB 1.4 to
> experimental. At some point, the transition could be started (after
> coordination with the related maintainers).
>
> I didn't tried myself to rebuild affected packages yet.

I've built cairo, gtk+2.0 and cdebconf (all from unstable) against it for
a D-I test. The builds were all OK, but I see serious regressions in D-I.

In this screenshot you can see that our banner is missing:
http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/directfb_regression.png

And the same goes for icons, so basically any image.

Also, if I move the cursor using the arrow keys, it jumps one line. E.g.
if I go down, the current line moves from Moldova to Montenegro and skips
Monaco. I guess the same happens for selection between two radiobuttons,
but there it actually results in the selection not changing at all
(because there's nothing to skip).

I've verified that both issues are not present in a daily built image
using current libraries from unstable. I'll file a bug against the
experimental version of directfb later.

There's also a rather large size increase of a D-I image: a daily built
image is 18458624, while one with the new directfb is 18905088; that's
436kB.

Cheers,
FJP