Re: Desktop slowness issue - freeze break request

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

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> I argue in the bug why the omission of these redraws is safe, but even
> if you don't believe that such a change can at most cause redraw issues
> which are not very serious.
>
> This patch probably doesn't remove all the slowdowns caused by this
> apparent X slowness issue, but it at least makes it better by limiting
> its scope. And it should help everyone, since these desktop redraws are
> just generally a waste of time, even on systems where its not very slow.
>
> Is this ok to commit?
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This doesn't seem to be a regression, so maybe it can wait for 2.12.1. I
also don't see anybody confirming that it fixes the issue for them.

If it was my code, I'd put in a comment about why the redraw is not
necessary.

Murray Cumming
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