[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 219776] New: [GTK][WPE] Async overflow scrolling is disabled by default due to brokenness

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            Bug ID: 219776
           Summary: [GTK][WPE] Async overflow scrolling is disabled by
                    default due to brokenness
           Product: WebKit
           Version: WebKit Nightly Build
          Hardware: Unspecified
                OS: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Scrolling
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: clord at igalia.com

Sorry for the slightly vague title - Currently, AsyncOverflowScrollingEnabled is disabled in WebPreferencesInternal for Nicosia because enabling it results in broken rendering on scrolled overflow scrolling layers and their descendents. This is obviously less than ideal, scrolling is often not done on the root frame and disabling async overflow scrolling causes us to fall back to both main-thread scrolling and results in more painting and worse-feeling scrolling.

The bug appears to be boundsOrigin on layers not being respected correctly. We should fix this and enable this setting - I have a patch that fixes at least the most obvious issues. I'm not certain it's a complete fix, but we need wider testing to identify further issues.

In the future, it'd probably be ideal for there to be more shared code here between Mac and Linux, where Mac has a complete and likely more bug-free implementation. I think it'd be good to do some consolidation/refactoring and renaming in this code path - though this patch is quite small, it took a long time to figure out.

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