[MPlayer-dev-eng] Removal of backing store

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 15:41 +0200, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
> >> > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=119047
> >> >
> >> > Looks like backing store should be disabled for Xorg 1.5.0.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Not 1.5 but 1.6. Btw mplayer played a good part in convincing us :)
> >
> > I think you confused the changes. It should be disabled in MPlayer
> > because of 1.5.0; Xorg is apparently planning to remove it completely in
> > 1.6.
> >
> 
> No I didn't confuse things. I'm an X.Org developer, and we want to
> remove backing store in 1.6 because it doesn't make much sense to have
> it these days with composite managers, and applications like mplayer
> misuse it.

At least you misinterpreted what I meant. 1.5.0 is a reason to disable
it in MPlayer; 1.6 isn't (I assume 1.6 will just ignore backing store
instead of triggering an error).