Removal of offscreen display support (--offscreen)

[Alan Griffiths]

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

>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Kevin DuBois
> <kevin.dubois at canonical.com> 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
>> <alexandros.frantzis at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> 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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