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X11 shell should use timers for fallback painting.

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#1,186 opened on Sep 6, 2020

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Description

The fallback painting code should be changed to use timers. Right now it uses the idle loop, but this isn't ideal: it forces us to either write a bunch of special-case code for painting or else rate-limit the idle loop to avoid painting to often (this is the current state).

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Research direction
Investigate the current idle loop painting implementation in the X11 shell and replace it with timer based painting. Look at the existing fallback painting code and the event loop integration.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Refactor
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3
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Half day
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Fresh
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Clear
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Rustdruid internals
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60