Subject: Removal of offscreen display support (--offscreen)

From: Alexandros Frantzis <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 12:24:20 +0300

Hi all,

for a few years now, Mir has provided the --offscreen option to render
to offscreen buffers instead of the real outputs (note that it still
needs proper GPU/GLESv2 support, and it doesn't work in all
environments). This option was implemented experimentally in order to
help with automated QA scenarios, but it was never adopted, and we
didn't get any feedback or improvement requests.

Unless someone is currently using --offscreen, or has a valid use case
for it, I would like to remove it from our code base.

Thanks,
Alexandros

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From: Kevin DuBois <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 09:40:37 -0400

Sounds good to me, screencasting seems to have become the preferred way
that capturing output.
--Kevin

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From: Christopher James Halse Rogers <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 14:45:57 +1000

Seems sensible; should this become necessary again we're very nearly in 
a position to accommodate it as a no-core-changes-needed platform 
anyway.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Kevin DuBois 
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> Sounds good to me, screencasting seems to have become the preferred 
> way that capturing output.
> --Kevin
> 
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Alexandros Frantzis 
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>

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From: Alan Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 09:12:11 +0100

On 07/07/16 05:45, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> Seems sensible; should this become necessary again we're very nearly
> in a position to accommodate it as a no-core-changes-needed platform
> anyway.

+1

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From: Kevin Gunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 09:23:28 -0500

I confirmed with QA they don't have any known use/reliance on --offscreen,
so +1 on removal
br,kg