Snappier rendering: paint at idle, not on timeout Background: Currently LibreOffice repaints its screen after a given timeout - this is less than ideal - we should instead use an 'idle' concept such as other toolkits use for painting instead of timeouts. This would involve adding a set of prioritised handlers to be run when nothing is coming in from sockets. See vcl/source/window/window.cxx /maPaintTimer/ for the current state of affairs (30ms delay-to-render, 50ms to resize). See also vcl/unx/gtk/app/gtkdata.cxx's impl. of the polling interface: StartTimer / StopTimer etc. we need to add idle handlers with variable priorities / ordering too. Skills: building, C++, mainloop understanding
Deteted "Easyhack" from summary
adding LibreOffice developer list as CC to unresolved EasyHacks for better visibility. see e.g. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/minutes-of-ESC-call-td4076214.html for details
There is work going on on this topic at Munich; with some details in the wiki here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LHM_LiMux/Main_Loop
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