[webkit-gtk] Add API for disabling the accelerated compositing

[Michael Gratton]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Carlos Garcia Campos 
<cgarcia at igalia.com> wrote:
> 
>>  The only way right now to disable the AC is through the environment
>>  variable WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE. I would like to propose 
>> the
>>  following API:
>> 
>>  void webkit_web_context_set_accelerated_compositing_enabled
>>  (WebKitWebContext *context, gboolean enabled);
>> 
>>  gboolean webkit_web_context_get_accelerated_compositing_enabled
>>  (WebKitWebContext *context);
> 
> There's already a setting in WebCore, so it would be more natural to
> expose it as a WebKitSetting, we used to have that setting in WebKit1
> indeed.

I'd be interested in this for Geary, for much the same reasons as the 
Evo team.

Dumb question, but would a workaround for the moment be to set the 
WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE env var from the embedding process 
itself, before the WK2 context is initialised, so that AC is 
subsequently disabled?

//Mike

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