On 10/19/05, Dennis Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > would it be just a lot better once Xara is ported... to just release widgets > which can use xara?
Actually, I think it's simpler than this. My understanding is: Cairo is a nice drawing API that GTK now uses to paint the display, http://cairographics.org Cairo can render drawing commands in many ways. It can use hardware-accelerated OpenGL (via GLitz) (although this seems to be non-functional at the moment), there's a X11 one, it can software-render to an in-memory image buffer, it can generate PDF or Postscript, it can render on win32 using gdi+ (someone is looking at d3d), and on OS X with Quartz, and so on. Xara sounds like it has a fast software renderer, so it could potentially be useful as an alternative Cairo backend. You would not need to touch GTK or any widgets. But there are tricky licensing issues. Maybe the xara rendering engine could be LGPLed? In any case, this is off-topic for app-devel. Maybe the cairo list would be a better place. (hope I've got this right, I've not been reading the cairo lists) _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
