GNU bug report logs - #79141
31.0.50; The tab-bar-format-align-right cache doesn't take face changes and per-frame faces into account

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Steven Allen <steven <at> stebalien.com>, 79141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#79141: 31.0.50; The tab-bar-format-align-right cache doesn't take face changes and per-frame faces into account
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:08:09 +0300

>> How often your tab-bar is updated?  For frequent string-pixel-width calls
>> using debounce or throttle like from https://github.com/karthink/timeout
>> could help.
>
> It is recomputed completely on every redisplay. It might be possible to
> throttle the tab bar recomputation, such that it happens only a few
> times per second. This will lead to other difficulties however, since in
> some cases the tab bar should react immediately (e.g., when creating new
> tabs or when toggling some elements).

What I actually meant is more like setting a short cache eviction time,
for example 1 sec after changing the faces the tab-bar will be
in a broken state using an old cached value, but later the width
will be recomputed and updated.

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